HOSTILITIES IN IRELAND

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15034, 4 September 1922, Page 5

HOSTILITIES IN IRELAND

FIGHTING IN DUBLIN BULLETS SWEEP THE STREETS. MORE OUTRAGES REPORTED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received September 3, 8.5. p.m. LONDON, September 2. Dublin reports that the worst night fighting since the O’Connell Street surrender was experienced in the city on Friday. A strong detachment of rebels attacked several Nationalist posts, including the City Hall, four courts, hotel and the technical school, bui were driven ol'f after two hours’*continuous shooting. Trams were stopped during tho fighting and the terrified passengers lay flat on the floors while bullets whizzed along the emptying streets. Despite the intensity of the shooting the casualties were remarkably small in number. Brisk fighting is also reported in Cork and Waterford Counties, and in each case the rebels were defeated. - At Dublin a railwayman, John Stephens, was dragged from his bed by armed men in the early morning, motored to the outskirts of the city, shot; and left for dead by the roadside. He is now in hospital, but his condition is precarious. Two other men were found shot dead in the grounds of a house at Black Rock.