GUERRILLA WAR.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2018, 3 August 1920, Page 7

GUERRILLA WAR.

CONDITIONS IN IRELAND. SHOOTING AND BOMBING. By Cable. —TVm Association. — Copyright. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, Aug. 2. Sinn Feiners raided the Rossi are coastguard station, and stole Verey lights and other equipment and essentials. The police, when searching hedges near Cork on Saturday, found live revolvers of a German pattern and some bombs. John Aherne, a civilian, who was killed during an attack, wore the uniform of an officer of the Republican Army. ' Firing, bomb-throwing, and guerrilla attacks on patrols marked the enforcement of the curfew order in Cork on Sunday. THE NEW IRISH BILL. EFFORT TO PUT DOWN CRIME. Australian and A'.Z. Cable Association. (Bee. Aug. 3, 10.40) LONDON, Auff. 2. The new Bill to put down crime in Ireland will be introduced in the House of Commons to-day. HOW LUCAT ESCAPED. TREATMENT IN CAPTIVITY. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, Aug. 2. The Galway correspondent of the "Daily Express" supplies an "exclusive" story of Brigadier-General Lucas's captivity. He was kept in various dwellings and farmhouses in three counties, and was well treated and comfortable. He was guarded night and day. The restrictions on his liberty for the first few days in County Kerry were galling. Three guards, with revolvers resting on their knees, sat at his bedside, while others belonging to a rough peasant type were outside his windows. The former, with whom he was in more immediate contact, were considerate, and evidently solicitous for his comfort. They spoke only of their experiences after the rebellion, but Brigadier-General Lucas feared that the houses whence he was successively removed were subsequently searched by the police, and the military. His transfer always occurred at night time, and precautions were taken to prevent his ascertaining his locality.

The conditions of his captivity in County Limerick were immeasurably easier than in Kerry. Whenever he entered a new house he found everything prepared for his reception. The day guard remained until relieved late at night, and after the guard was withdrawn from his bedroom he was undisturbed until 10 o'clock in the morning. He was taken towards night for exercise and fishing excursions. The window in his last abode, north-eastward of Newpallas, was guarded outside by spiked iron bars. During a torrential downpour of rain he forced one of the spikes aside and squeezed through and escaped unobserved. He traversed fields and clambered for three hours over wails and through hedges, scrub and wire fences. The first streaks of dawn suggested that he hall taken the right direction. He told a peasant whom he met that he wished to return to the police barracks, and asked the way. The peasant cheerfully gave him the information, and he soon reached Newpallas, cold, wet and bleeding. Brigadier-General Lucas is reported to have left Queenstown for London.

MAKING SURE OF MANNIX. NO CALL AT QUEENSTOWN. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, Aug. 2. All Atlantic liners have been ordered not to call at Queenstown, but to proceed to Liverpool.