IRELAND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18783, 17 May 1923, Page 5

IRELAND

ANOTHER REBEL LEADER KILLED By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright. LONDON, May 15. Free State troops, operating in the hiils near Wicklow, surrounded a party of rebels in a house. A fight ensued. Blanket, the rebel leader, was killed, and twelve others surrendered. RELEASE OF DEPORTEES LONDON, May 15. The Right Hon. W. C. Bridgeman, Secretary for Home Affairs, in the House of Commons, announced that in view of the decision of the House of Lords, it was clear it was the Govern ment’s duty to request the Irish Free State to return internees to this country and this request was being made to-day. The .Government was also considering the question of proceeding criminally against certain of the internees, and subject to such proceedings, the Government had decided to release the internees on their return tc» this country.

Regarding the question of compensation to internees, the Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated that an indemnity Bill would be introduced to-day. The House would re assemble on Tuesday, when it was hoped to pass the measure through all stages forthwith. 110 WOMEN RETURNING ON DESTROYER Received May 16, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, May 16. The Dublin correspondent of the Australian Press Association states tnat 110 women deportees will leave Kingston for Holyhead on a British destroyer this morning.