NO TRUCE IN IRELAND

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 7 February 1923, Page 5

NO TRUCE IN IRELAND

EXECUTIONS TO BE CARRIED OUT A GENERAL'S STATEMENT (Per Press Association —Copyright.) London, February 6. General Duly, replying to a request from the Tralee District Council for a truce, and the commutation of the death sentence on five Kerry men, said: “It would be unjust to the heroic railwaymen who gave their lives in order to carry food to Tralee if I asked the Government to stay its hand. The executions will stop when train-wrecking, murder, arson and robbery cease. If the people at a free election were to vote in favour of a truce with the murderers and train-wreckers I should cease to serve the people of Ireland.” London, February 6. The County Wicklow residence of Colonel Eusace Maude, who is in Ceylon, was burned down by armed men. Mrs Maude and the household looked on, covered by the rifles of the jtasders. Ballygassan House, the residence of F. Russell, sub-sheriff of County Louth, was burned down by armed men, who described the action as a reprisal for the executions by the Govrenment, of which Russell is an official.

DUBLIN, Feb. 5. Dublin reports state that Senator Sigerson has resigned owing to intimidation.

Senator Doctor George Sigersou is eighty-five. He resigned •in consequence of a rebel threat that his home would be burned if he continued to act as a Senator. Doctor Sigersou says that, while threats were confined to shooting he did not care, but now they involved the destruction of his home, he must consider his children’s interests.—A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON, Feb. 5. A Dublin messags says that thren. women in possession of arms and ammunition have been arrested and will be court-martiallad.—-A. and N Z. Cable. ,