IRISH CIVIL WAR

Southland Times, Issue 19772, 21 February 1923, Page 5

IRISH CIVIL WAR

FREE STATERS RETALIATE PLAYING THE EEBEL GAME (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, February 19. (Received February 20, 9.45 p.m.) Free Staters have commenced wrecking Republican houses in Dublin, as a reprisal for the destruction by rebels. Twelve men in Free State uniforms, went to the house of Mrs Edmund Kent, whose husband was executed in Easter 1916. The three women were given five minutes to clear out of the house. The Free Staters then spent an hour in wrecking furniture and breaking doors and tearing clothing to shreds. Similar damage was done to the house of Mrs Andrew Ryland, where thirty men came at night and told the women they were going to burn the house. Mrs Ryland, her sister and three children were driven out in their nightdresses, and their furniture was broken up and money taken. The wreckers drove off in motor cars. FIGHTING IN TIPPERARY. SENATOR’S HOUSE DESTROYED. LONDON, February 19. During severe fighting between Free State troops and Irregulars in Tipperary the Irregulars lost Commandant Lacey (killed), Captain McDonagh (wounded), and twelve were taken prisoner. The Free Staters had one killed and three wounded. Incendiaries destroyed Senator Linehand’s farmhouse at Ballyvolane, County Cork, where the family had resided since their home at Whitechurch was burnt. Rebels burned Cahanmore House, County Louth, owned by Senator O’Rourke. MORE REPRISALS. LXDNDON, February 19. As reprisal for executions the rebels burned the mansion of the ex-Crown solicitor at Bailina. The damage is estimated at £20,000 sterling. As a counter to the republicans burning MacCabe’s house armed men visited the houses of prominent irregulars in Dublin and wrecked the furniture. REBELS SURRENDERING. LONDON, February 19. (Received February 20, 9.15 p.m.) Though the amnesty brought little response in many parts of Ireland, there have been notable surrenders in North Cork, North Kerry and Limerick, while the irregular leader in Tralee publicly offered the surrender of 500 men. The surrenders in Cork include one of the most influential leaders. The irregular leader, Kanturk, handed over arms, equipment and Explosives. The Free State troops are fighting the rebels in Temjiemore, Wicklow Mountains, Macßoom and Ballingary.