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Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1922, Page 5

IRELAND.

author of land mines. MUNITION DIRECTOR ARRESTED dy Telegraph.- Tress Awe. Copyright. Received Nov. 24, 7.35 p.m. London, Nov. 28. It is officially reported that Sean Ruwell, ft quartermaster of the north»eastern irregulars, was arrested at Clontarf. Russell is th. director of munitione and chemicals, and is responsible for the organisation Mid preparation of land mines. REBEL LEADER CAPTURED. Received Nov. 24, 7.35 p.m. London, Nov. 23. Hales, an important leader of irregulars in the iouth, was captured at Upton Court with important documents in bis possession. Hales' brother is a prominent member of the Provisional Parliament and supports the treaty. An appeal has been lodged in the Childers case. CHILDERS’ APPEAL REFUSED. DEPORTATION DENIED. London, Nov. 23. The Master of the Rolls, in refusing to issue a writ of haveas corpus in connection with Childers, held that his jurisdiction was ousted by the state of war which Childera had helped to bring about. He also refused writs regarding eight other men, and refused to stay the proceedings on the ground that he had no jurisdiction. Referring to the destruction of the Four Courts and the other ruinous work of the revolutionftries, he said that if this was not a state of war he did not know what it was. It was plainly the Government’s duty to save the country from utter destruction. The King’s Bench refused to issue a writ of habeas corpus in the case of two women arrested by the Free Staters on similar grounds. The Colonial Office denies the statement that Childers has been deported to Ascension Island. Dr. Colahan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork, preaching, said that Mary MacSwiney had been refused the Sacraments. Her hunger-strike, if carried to the extreme of death, would be a mortal sin. If she died she had only herself to blame.