FEAR FILLS DUBLIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1923, Page 5

FEAR FILLS DUBLIN.

TERRORISM OF THE REBELS.

MORE TRAIN-WRECKING.

TROOPS BLOCK RAILWAYS.

By Telegraph.—Tress Assn.—Copyright. Received Jan. 16, 11.5 p.m. London, Jan. I'd. Four executions were carried out in Roscrea and one at Carlow, for possessing arms. The rebels are successfully terrorising Dublin. All the telegraphs have been destroyed between the city of Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Sligo. An armed gang is scouring the streets in powerful cars, and train wreckers are continuing their activities. The main line from Cork to Dublin is blocked with troops which are being rushed into the Roscommon and Sligo areas. A THRILLING ESCAPE. DOCTOR ELUDES REBELS. Received Jan. 16, 5.5 p.m. London, Jan. 15. Senator Cogarty escaped from a party of rebels by whom he was kidnapped and taken to the mountains. Senator Cogarty, who is a prominent Dublin physician, said his escape was most thrilling. Four men called at his house and demanded his attendance at an urgent case, and when the doctor appeared he was faced with four reVol vers. Armed men led him to a waiting motor-car and drove him to an empty house near Island Bridge. The doctor asked to go out for a breath of air, and he was accompanied by guards, but as soon as he was outside the door he stripped off his coat and flung it over the guards’ heads and fled, armed men pursuing him. Finding his only hope of escape was to cross the Liffey, Senator Cogarty dived into the icy cold water. The current carried him downstream, but eventually he reached a weir and managed to struggle ashore and cross Phoenix Park. He reached a civic guard, station exhausted and took refuge overnight.—Aus.-N.Z. Ctble Assn.