MICHAEL COLLINS’S DEATH.

Temuka Leader, Issue 10358, 29 August 1922, Page 3

MICHAEL COLLINS’S DEATH.

NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. LONDON, August 24. Mr Mulcahy has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Army. MR COLLINS’S BROTHER KIDNAPPED. LONDON, August 24. Rebels kidnapped, but later released, John -Collins, a brother of Michael. He states that they are gloating over having “done in Mick Collins, the traitor.” BODY LYING IN STATE. LONDON. August 2G. There were pathetic scenes at the lying-iu-state of Mr Collins’s body ;it the City Hall. Enormous crowds gathered outside the building ’and a .steady stream of people, moved past the open coffin. Many made the sign of the Cross and kissed the face as they Avalkod past.- Others prayed audibly. Avhile others gave way to tears. At noon the public Avere excluded while intimate friends and relatives viewed the body, including the dead leader’s brother, John, Avho Avas deeply moved. He bent down and embraced the body. Then he knelt and prayed, and as he rose grasped his dead brother’s hand and left the hall. It is now believed that Mr Collins’s death was no mere accident, but that it Avas carefully planned. That when the rebels failed to kill him by means of a direct onslaught they lay low until he l began to move a Pout. He s was then picked out 1 ; a sniper. HOMICIDAL MANIA. LONDON, August 24. Mr Bernard Shaw states: “Ireland is suffering from an epidemic of homicidal mania, calling it patriotism. If the shooting of Mr Collins dots not turn every sensible Irishman into a resolute special constable the country must perish; because, if it cannot govern itself, no power on

earth can govern it; and self-govern-ment will become self-extermination. It is stated in Belfast that Mr Michael Collins ,was sentenced to deaih by the Republican Brotherhood. A message from Dublin says that Mr Collins’s fiancee was compelled to leave her home at Granard, Longford, 'owing to- the persecutions of the Irregulars, and she lived for some time in Bangor, County Down, also at Enniskillen, at which point Mr Collins frequently crossed the Ulster border to see her. .

MR CHURCHILL’S TRIBUTE. LONDON, August 24. Mr Winston Churchill has sent a message of sympathy to Mr Cosgrove, paying a tribute to. the late I Mr Collins as a dauntless man poss- ; essed of intense devotion to his country's cause. He said the death i wag a heavy blow to the Irish National Government, but he was'con--I fident that men would be fouud to fiy ; the gap, and the Irish people would , not rest until they Avere master of ! their own house. THE POPE’S SYMPATHY. VIOLENCE CONDEMNED. :-; ROME, August 24. ! The Pope Avas profoundly moved by the news, and declared that thepidemic of political murders showed the necessity for realising that .violence would not secure the | triumph of any cause. j CARDINAL LOGUE’S MESSAGE. Cardinal - Logue has sent a message to the Provisional Government and the relatives of Mr Collins, saying; “The blow should awaken th consciences of the misguided mien who show their loA r e of their coun- ; try by drenching the soil with blood, ■ leaving behind a trail of hideous ruin and destruction, and killing a 1 young, brave, wise patriot, Avhose chief hope was for a peaceful and 1 prosperous Ireland." Wooes’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Children’s Hacking Cough, A sure and pleasant specific for removing worms is WADE’S WORM FIGS. ' 1