OPEN WARFARE IN IRELAND
TRALEE RAIDS FREE STATE SOLDIERS FIND LAND MINES. NEW SURRENDER TERMS. CABLE PRESS ASSN- —COPYRIGHT(Received 7.5 p.ni., March 8.) London, March 7. Free State troops marching on tho Tralee-Killorglin road, encountered a stone barricade, which was discovered to have mines with a trigger release. The officer in charge returned to Tralee and brought out rebel prisoners, and ordered them to remove the barricade. The mine exploded, killing eight prisoners and wounding two officers. A similar explosion at Counteesbridgo killed four prisoners. Barry, Rebel Commandant General in Munster, agreed to submit to the febcl executive, proposals mado by tho Archbishop of Cashel for the immediate cessation of hostilities, and the surrender of arms. Munster rebels have been long disposed towards peace, but hitherto have been overruled by Dublin, the Midlanders and Westerners'.
Tho premises of the “Witness,” tho Belfast Presbyterian paper, were destroyed by fire. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
FREE STATE SOLDIERS. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. (Received 2 a.m., March 9.) Dublin, 'March S. Three officers and three volunteers, belonging to the Free State Army, were blown tp pieces by an explosion of a trapmine concealed in a dump in east Kerry. General O’Baly, Commandant in Kerry, ordered that in future all mine’s dumps' shall he removed by rebel prisoners.—A. and N.Z. Cable. .*
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18063, 9 March 1923, Page 7
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