IRELAND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18786, 21 May 1923, Page 5

IRELAND

THE SILENCE BROKEN HOUR’S FIGHTING IN DUBLIN By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright. Received May 19, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, May 19. After three weeks’ lull, fighting broke out in Dubliu on Friday night. VeTy heavy firing was heard between 11 o’clock and midnight all over the city. The principal military barracks were attacked and several Free State patrols sniped at from roofs. Firing stopped at midnight, and the city was quiet again.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. MALICIOUS FALSEHOOD Received May 19, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, May 19. Military headquarters issue a total denial of the alleged ill-treatment of deportees. The statement that one was kept hanging by his bauds from the wall is characterised as an absurd and malicious falsehood.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. COUNT PLUNKETT’S DAUGHTER ARRESTED Received May 19, 12.15 p.m. LONDON, May 19. Free State troops arrested a girl on a road near Ballyhaunis. They searched her bandbag and found Irregular dispatches, plans and maps. They took her to Claremorris, where she was identified as Count Plunkett’s daughter. It is reported she tried to swallow important papers, but was prevented. Patrick Kelville, a farmer at Currycamp, Leitrim, was taken from his home at midnight by masked men and shot dead. A convention of 200 delegates at Leeds decided to wind up the United Irish League. Mr T. P. O'Connor thought there should be a new organisation to effect the re-union of all parts of Ireland, not by violent, but by constitutional means. The conference discussed this privately.