IRISH TURMOIL.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 7 August 1922, Page 5

IRISH TURMOIL.

DESPERATE FIGHTING AT KILMALLOCK. REBELS LAST STRONGHOLD. Per Press Association —Copyright. London, August 5. There was desperate fighting at Kilmalloek, .the rebels’ last stronghold in this district. HEAVY CASUALTIES. Machine gun and rifle fire checked the Free Staters’ advance for a time, but the rebels were gradually driven back, the Nationalists gaining command of the positions to within half a mile of the town, the fall of which is imminent. The casualties on both sides are fairly heavy. DE VALERA’S FLIGHT PREDICTED. De Valera is at the Suir Valley and his early flight to the mountain fastness is predicted. Many of his followers are mere schoolboys. KILMALLOCK CAPTURED London, August 6. Kilmalloek has been captured. REBELS RETREATING. The Irregulars are retreating towards Charleyville. GOVERNMENT MUST BE SUPREME. MILITARY ACTION NECESSARY. The Free State Government has published the correspondence between Mr Collins .and the Cork organisation which endeavoured to arrange ? compromise between the Free Staters and the Irregulars. The letter reads: “ The present military aciton is necessary. to enforce obedience to the Parliament and will only cease when that obedience is given unequivocally,.whereby all war ’materials will be surrendered, all seized property and money restored, and particulars given of all bridges, roads and railways mined or otherwise made unsafe. We are

anxious for peaee in Ireland, but that peace must be firmly established on the basis of the supremacy of the elected Government of the Irish people. NEWSPAPERS SUPPRESSED. The Northern Government is prohibiting the circulation in its territory of Freeman’s Journal and the Dublin Evening Telegraph, owing to the “ Gross attacks of a highly criminal character made on a judge of the Northern High Court.”

NIGHT ATTACK.

ON FREE STATE OUTPOSTS

London, August 6. An attack was launched throughout the night upon the outposts of free State forces in Dublin and suburbs, the result being that several civilians were wounded and one killed by the attackers’ revolvers. The chief points of attack were the Four Courts, Abbey Street, and Mountjoy Gaol.

Firing ceased at daybreak