FIGHTING IN IRELAND.
NUMBERS KILLED AND WOUNDED. RAILWAY BRIDGE DESTROYED. NATIONALISTS OCCUPY KILLARNEY. By Telegraph Press Association —Copyright Reuter's Telegrams. (Received August 16. 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 15. Tb is stated that ten were killed and forty wounded when Irregulars recaptured Dundalk. The dead are mostly Free Staters, killed in an explosion of mines under the barracks, which held 200 Free State troops. It is reported from Belfast that the viaduct over the River Boyne at Drogheda has been destroyed, meaning the indefinite suspension of the Belfast—Dublin railway service. Trains from Dublin are not running beyond Drogheda, which, although surrounded, appears to be still in tJhe National hands. The Nationals occupied Buttevant, where Dublin guards engaged a party of Irregulars, who* were mining the road. The Irregulars decamped, leaving a motor-car and a largo quantity of explosives. The Nationals took eleven prisoners. Nationals occupied Killarney unopposed .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16813, 16 August 1922, Page 7
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