IRELAND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18757, 14 April 1923, Page 5

IRELAND

THE FREE STATE ARMY

NOT ORGANISING FOR WAR DEBATE IN THE DAIL. Received April 13, 8.30 p.m. LONDON, April 13. The Free State army was the subject ot a debate in the Dail. General Mulcahy, answering criticism in regard to its control, said he did not believe they were organising an army for war. It would be disastrous if the Free State became engaged in war with another country. It was not a war machine, but one which i pulled the country out of a difficult situation and helped to develop the national characteristics which they were proud of. The operations wherein Lynch was killed were dictated from headquarters by wireless twenty-four hours previously. INQUEST ON LYAM LYNCH LONDON, April 11. An inquest was held at Clonmel, when a verdict was returned that Lynch had died from bullet wounds inflicted by National troops in the execution of their duty. The deceased was not armed when captured. MORE LEADERS CAPTURED LONDON, April 12. It is reported from Clonmel that Count Plunket, Countess Marklevicz, Miss McSweeney and Liam Lynch’s brother have been captured in Tipperary. Thomas Keating, an active rebel leader, has died of injuries received during a fight yesterday between the irregulars and Free Staters at Coolnas, near Waterford. SIX MORE REBELS SHOT LONDON, April 12. Six rebels were executed in the Tuam Barracks at 8 o’clock this morning. They were taken out in two- parties of three bodies, and buried in the barrack grounds. The men had been imprisoned for several months in Galway gaol. They were captured with arms in their possession. FURTHER ARRESTS CONFIRMED LONDON, April 12. While Mary McSweeney, Count Plunket and Lynch’s brother were traversing Tipperary by train on their way to Clonmel to attend Liam Lynch’s funeral, the military boarded the train and conveyed the prisoners to the military headquarters. Eventually Lynch’s brother was released.