IRISH FREE STATE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16911, 9 December 1922, Page 17

IRISH FREE STATE.

SENSATION IN DUBLIN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. I.ON DON. December 7. The murder of Mr Hales, a member nf the Dnil Kireann. caused a sensation it. Dublin. Mr Hales and Mr O’Malley ■were about to enter a car, when the murderers opened fire. Mr O’Malley, supporting Mr Hales, tried to the driver to drive to the .Jervis Street Hospital. Mr Hales died a minute after his admission. The bullet was extracted from Mr O’Malley, who is rot in a critical condition. A tender, tarrying British troops, •eached the scene directly after the .hots were fired, and pursued the murderers. who fHu. One of the officers leaped out of the tender and dashed after the fugitives, firing a revolver, but without result. The murderers escaped in the maze of streets. Mr Hales uas a close friend of the late Mr Michael Collins. His brother Tom was a leader of the Irregulars, and was taken prisoner a fortnight ago. DETAILS OF OUTRAGE. (Received December 8. 8.20 p.m.) HON DON, December 7. Mr Cosgrrve. in the Dail Eire-ann, nnounced the assassination of Mr lales and the wounding of Mr O’Malley, Deputy Speaker. As Mr Hales and Mr O’Malley left their hotel in a hackney car. seven men, who had been waiting for them outside, opened a revolver fire. Mr Hales receiving a bullet in the jaw and another in the right breast. Mr O’Malley was wounded in the hack an.l the right arm. Their assailants then scattered and ran. AN IRREGULAR SUCCESS. LONDON. .December 7. Irregulars, possessing an armoured far and machine-guns, rushed the vilhi;;r of Ballymakura. near Macgoom, which was held by a Free State garrison numbering over a hundred. Tho fighting continued for several hours. Ultimately the garrison, after tho loss « i one killed and fifteen seriously ' ounded, surrendered. The Irregulars gathered all available arms and ammtinii:on, and marched the prisoners to the Mountains. Subsequently the prisoners returned to Ballymakura. the Irregulars finding it impossible to detain such ;• Urge party in thinly-inhabited mountainous country. ULSTER PARLIAMENT. LONDON, December 7. The Ulster Parliament unanimously derided to contract out of the Free ►State. Sir James Craig, in submitting the contracting-out proposal in the Ulster Parliament, wh'ch took the form of an address to the King, praying that the powers of the Free State Parliament and Government shall not extend to Northern Ireland, declared that the only possible way to secure co-operation : ml peace was for the South to settle its own affairs, tho North carrying oil its own Parliament. Tho Senate carried an identical motion. and Parliament then adjourned. Sir James Craig has gone to London.