IRISH SITUATION

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XX, Issue 6725, 26 September 1922, Page 2

IRISH SITUATION

DAIL AND CONSTITUTION BILL PRESERVATION OF TREATY. REOGNITION OF CROWN. United Service Telegrams. (Received 8 a.mo LONDON, September 24. The Dail Eircann put in hard work oti tli© Free State Constitution Bill, which readies the committee stage on Monday. Cabinet has announced certain clauses on 'which the the Government will stand or fall, including the preservation of the Treaty position, and the recognition oi the Crown.

Th 0 bulk of the nation is breathing easier again, seeing in the functioning of the Dail happier and more stable conditions.

Rebel activity is diminishing except in Kerry, which is practcally cut off from communication. Hundreds of unemployed''a r© starving.

A captpred rebel manifesto urges the immedato establishment of a provisional Republican Government. ESCAPE OF REBELS. GENERAL O’DUPFY AMBUSHED. | (Received 12.30 p.mA LONDON September 25. It is reported that thirty-nine irregular prisoners , escaped' from the county gaol in Cork Ijiy tunnelling to a disused ventilator shaft, from which they reached a manhole in the road outside. Only two were recaptured. A Dublin official message states: —Th c rebels ambushed General o'’Duffy, who wag motoring at Naas accompanied by other high (officers. The attackers opened a heavy 'revolver fir 0 and then retreated. General O’Duffy and party were unhurt.