FIGHTING IN IRELAND.
ULSTER AGAIN AFFEOTED. IRREGULAR ACTIVITIES. WARFARE CONTINUES IN THE SOUTH. By Telegraph.—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received September 23, 8 a.m.) LONDON, September 21. The latest reports from Ireland iudi_ cate a recrudescence of fighting in Ulster. in addition to the continued warfare in the South Two Ulster constables were ambushed near Market Hill, one being wounded. A patrol from Clogher, Tyrone, was ambushed on the road to Monaghan. They returned the fire and the ambushers fled, abandoning their ammunition and field dressings, but blocking the way with trees. Shots were fired at a sentry in the neutral zone on the Fermanagh border. There is no sign of an end to the Irish postal strike. The staffs are gradually increasing, hut commercial people are organising their own letter deliveries. The principal news from the South is of attacks on Macroom and Newport. Irregulars at Newport used machine guns, bombs and rifles and the troops replied vigorously. Firing continued for five hours, while the residents were terrorised. The attackers were eventually forced to retire.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16846, 23 September 1922, Page 9
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178FIGHTING IN IRELAND. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16846, 23 September 1922, Page 9
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