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POBLACHT NA h-EIREANN WAR NEWS No. 2
Thursday June 29 OGLAIGH NA h-EIREANN
PRICE 1d.
PROCLAMATION.
STATEMENT BY EAMON DE VALERA.
JUNE 28TH, 1922.
FELLOW CITIZENS OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC.
The fateful hour has come. At the dictation of our hereditary enemy crush rightful cause is being treacherously assailed by recreant Irishmen. The crash of arms and the boom of artillery reverberate in this supreme test of the Nation's destiny.
Gallant soldiers of the Irish Republic stand vigorously firm in its defence and worthily uphold their noblest traditions. The sacred spirits of the Illustrious Dead are with us in this great struggle. "Death before Dishonour" being an unchanging principle of our national faith as it was of theirs, still inspires us to emulate their glorious effort.
We, therefore, appeal to all citizens who have withstood unfinishingly the expression of the enemy during the past six years to realize the support of the Republic and recognise that the resistance now being offered is but the continuance of the struggle that was suspended by the truce with the British. We especially appeal to our former comrades of the Irish Republic to return to that allegiance and thus guard the Nation's honour from the infamous stigma that her sons aided her foes in retaining a hateful domination over her.
Confident of victory and of maintaining Ireland's Independence this appeal is issued by the Army Executive on behalf of the Irish Republican Army.
(Signed), COMDT.-GEN. LIAM MELLOWES, COMDT.-GEN. RORY O'CONNOR, COMDT.-GEN. JOS. MCKELVEY, COMDT.-GEN. EARNAN O'MAILLE, COMDT.-GEN. SEUMAS ROBINSON, COMDT.-GEN. SEAN MOYLAN, COMDT.-GEN. MICHAEL KILROY, COMDT.-GEN. FRANK BARRETT, COMDT.-GEN. THOMAS DERRIG, COMDT. T. BARRY, COL. COMDT.-GEN. F. O'FAOLAIN, BRIG.-GEN. J. O'CONNOR, GEN. LIAM LYNCH, COMMDT.-GEN. LIAM DEASEY, COL. COMMDT. PEADAR O'DONNELL, P. RUTTLEDGE.
28th JUNE, 1922.
The Republic is fighting for its life.
The Republic proclaimed in arms at Easter, 1916, established by law in January, 1919, defended by an army and people with heroic bravery and sacrifice through Terror, torture, and devastation in 1920 and 1921: the Republic consecrated by the blood of Pearse, Connolly, and the dearest and noblest of our patriots: the Republic once more is fighting for its life.
Citizens, defend your Republic!
The enemy is the old enemy; using new weapons lent her, to their shame, by traitors to the Republic in our midst. Lloyd George and Churchill eracked the whip in their speeches on Monday night when they ordered the Provisional Government to attack the Four Courts. Their Free State agents came to heel. Shame on them! Shame!
Mercenaries wearing Irish uniform, paid, equipped, and armed by England, and acting under England's orders, are attacking our brothers of the Irish Republican Army, who defend the living Republic, and will defend it to the death.
In the Four Courts, bombarded by guns borrowed from Churchill, stand the men who have refused to foreswear their allegiance to the Republic, who have refused to sacrifice honour for expediency, and sell their country to a foreign King. In Rory O'Connor and his comrades lives the unbought, indomitable soul of Ireland.
Irish citizens, give them support! Irish soldiers, bring them aid!
BRITISH TROOPS CO-OPERATE IN THE WAR.
The British and the Big Guns.
Artillery is supplied to the Free State Army by the British. British Instructors are teaching them how to use the Free State armoured cars. British soldiers go in many of the Free State guns.
Firing on Hospital.
Yesterday (Wednesday) representatives of the Red Cross operating in the Four Courts interviewed commandant Darly (Free State Forces) at the four courts hospital quarters in the Courts.
He asked the representatives to have marks and lights placed indicating the boundaries of the Hospital, so that it could not be attacked.
This was done, but the firing and the sniping of the Hospital continued until all lights and marks were masked. The Free State fire is directed on the building.
More Co-operation.
Ten lorries full of R.I.C. from Gormanstown came into the Castle at 4 p.m. on 28/6/22, where the emptied lorries were handed over to F.S. Officers, who took them away.
A British military foot patrol in extended order moved down Mercer Street from 9 p.m. to midnight, 28/6/22, in conjunction with Free State troops in George's Street, etc.
Between 1-4 a.m., morning of 29/6/22, a column of seven empty F.S. lorries in the middle of which was a F.S. armoured car, was escorted by a lorry load of Tommies escorted by a British armoured car.
There was a British military foot patrol working in North King Street at 1 p.m. on 28/6/22.
Seven empty Crossleys driven by Free Staters with a Free State armoured car in centre column escorted by full tenders of British Tommies with their own armoured car, passed by Kilmainham Police Station last night, June 28th.
BEWARE!
Beware of Black and Tans and British Soldiers dressed in Free State Uniform.
PEOPLE OF IRELAND!
"IN YOUR NAME" the Free State Allies of England are making war on the upholders of the Irish Republic.
"TO MAINTAIN YOUR RIGHTS" the men who maintain Ireland's right to Freedom are being bombarded with British guns.
"TO DEFEND YOUR LIBERTIES" those who will sign away Ireland's liberty are endeavouring to destroy those who will defend it to the death.
LLOYD GEORGE'S WAR.
His Majesty's Free State Ministers have issued a lying proclamation. One of their worst lies is that they say they are making war on the Republican Army because some Belfast motor cars were seized and a Free State officer taken prisoner. That is a lie. They are making war because the British Government sent them an ultimatum ordering them to make war.
What Lloyd George handed on Monday last, June 26th:— That is quite unjustifiable. To permit it to go on is weakness, which lowered the prestige and authority of the Provisional Government.
"I do not want to use the language of menace, but it is essential that that should be brought to an end, and speedily. The British Government had indicated their views to the Provisional Government. I do not want to give details of communications."
What Churchill said on Monday last, the 26th June:—
"The presence in Dublin, in violent occupation of the Four Courts, of a band of men styling themselves the Headquarters of the Republican Executive is a gross breach and defiance of the Treaty.
"The time has come when it is not unfair, premature, or impatient to make the strengthened Irish Government and new Irish Parliament a request in express terms that this sort of thing must come to an end.
"If it does not come to an end — if it is not brought to an end, and a speedy end—then it is my duty, on behalf of H.M. Government, to say that the Treaty has been formally violated."

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POBLACHT NA h-EIREANN.
WAR NEWS No. 5.
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 1 Seventh Year of the Republic
PRICE ONE PENNY
THE FIGHT GOES ON
ARMY NEWS: OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUES
1. The 1st Southern on the Offensive
June 30th, 10 a.m.
The following seven positions held by Free State Forces within the area of the 1st Southern Division are at present stated by the I.R.A. :—
(a) Listtowel.(b) Foynes.(c) Skibbereen.(d) and (e) Abbeyfeale (two).(f) Newcastle West.(g) Broadford.
A hundred men are holding the line—Charleville to the Shannon.
When these seven positions are captured the Free State Forces will not hold a single position in the area of the 1st Southern Division.
The 1st Southern Division has taken over the "Cork Examiner."
The road from Cork to Dublin is clear.
2. The Loss of the Four Courts
Acting on a plan communicated to the O/C Four Courts early this morning, the relieving troops had worked their way through the investing lines to a predetermined objective, from which the garrison could have been relieved. The projected operation failed of completion owing to the premature explosion of a mine, which already within the investing lines, to retreat. This was effected without loss of men or material.
When the failure of this operation came to the knowledge of the O/C Dublin Brigade, and it was clear that there was no prospect of relieving the garrison before the fires in the Four Courts reached the numerous mines and large quantities of explosive material stored in the buildings, the O/C Dublin, as the Senior Officer operating in Dublin in defence of the Republic, sent the following despatch, addressed to the Acting Chief of Staff, Four Courts:—
"I have gone into the whole situation re your position, and have studied the same very carefully, and I have come to the following conclusion: To help me to carry on the fight outside you must surrender forthwith. I would be unable to fight my way through to you even at terrific sacrifice. I am expecting reinforcements at any moment.
If the Republic is to be saved your surrender is a necessity.
As Senior Officer outside I take it that I am entitled to order you to make a move which places me in a better military position. This order must be carried out without discussion. I take full responsibility.
(Signed)
O. Traynor,
O/C Dublin."
The bearer of this despatch, having reached the Four Courts, the Staff of the I.R.A. and their men accepted the decision of the O/C Dublin Brigade, and reversed their intention to hold the position to the last. Accordingly they must be carried out under a surrender and surrendered.
Prior to the sending of the communication from the O/C Dublin Brigade the I.R.A. garrison had sent all women and other non-combatants out of the position. The wounded had also been evacuated.
The total number of casualties on the part of the I.R.A. amounted to seven wounded. Some of the wounds are of a slight nature.
It is hoped to be able to and publish full details of the fight in the Four Courts since the attack by the Provisional Government Forces opened on Wednesday morning last. The reading of this should furnish a thrilling description of one of the finest fights for any position in the long struggle for Ireland's independence.
Thus ends the first engagement of the war begun by what Mr. Collins daily "my Government"—that is, the Provisional Government. The so-called Daily troops are clearly acting on Mr. Collins' authority as Chairman of the Provisional Government, and not on behalf of Daily Eireann.
3. Escape of Six Prisoners
The Four Courts prisoners have been removed from Jameson's Distillery to Mountjoy. Six have escaped.
To the Free State Soldiers
The Anglo-Irish war is not over: the latest of the battles of seven centuries is being fought in the streets of Dublin to day.
England's threat of war as the alternative to the surrender of the Republic is being carried out—carried out for her by Irishmen.
England's victory will be complete when the last Irish Republican is dead—not before.
The Battle of the Four Courts
The holding of the Four Courts by Rory O'Connor, Liam Mellows, and their gallant comrades for three days through a hell of fire from British guns and overwhelming Free State forces is an inspiration for upholders of the Republic.
The renegade Free States, if they have shame left in them, should be copied with shame at this ignoble "victory." What a "victory"! Won under British direction with British help and by British instigation, to achieve Britain's purpose of forcing her rule upon Ireland and destroying our Independence.
Generations of Irishmen to come will point the finger of scorn at those who won the Battle of the Four Courts.
The Crack of the Whip
MORE LIGHT ON THE BRITISH ORDERS FOR WAR.
Pressure was brought to bear by the British upon the Free State Government with regard to the question of the Four Courts at least as early as June 23rd.
The "Manchester Guardian" of June 24th published the following paragraph, headed "Irregulars' Refusal to Leave Four Courts: Military Conference in Dublin:—
"A Conference was held in Dublin yesterday, at which Mr. Griffith, Mr. Cope (Assistant Under Secretary), Major-Gen. Dalton, of the I.R.A., occupation of the Four Courts by the Irregulars under Gen. Rory O'Connor. The proceedings were secret."
This paragraph, which came from a British source, was censored out of the Irish Press, which only contained the bare statement that representatives of the British Provisional Government had conferred.
Three days later, the 26th, came the speeches of Lloyd George and Churchill in the House of Commons, saying that communications had been sent to the Provisional Government insisting on "speedy and immediate" action.
On Tuesday night, the 27th, the attack on the Four Courts was begun.
Reports of Surgeons to Officer Commanding Four Courts
Oglaigh na h-Eireann,
G.H.Q., Dublin,
Four Courts,
28/6/'22
To O.C., Barracks.
I beg to report that our Barrack Hospital was to-day subjected to continuous rifle-fire and periodical shell-fire, and even during a serious operation I was forced to stop and have the position of the operating table changed my head. I was later forced to evacuate the hospital altogether and establish a substitute hospital in a very unsuitable place in the basement.
Our Red Cross flag and signs were, of course, prominently displayed on the original hospital, and some of them were riddled with bullets. Our flag still flies perforated.
(Signed)
Surgeon in Charge.
P.S. 29th June—A gas lamp in front of the new hospital placed in position last night, on which Red Cross signs were placed, was found to have all its signs and glass shot away this morning.
(Signed)
Surgeon in Charge.
Four Courts, 29/6/'22.
To O.C. Barracks.
A Chara—I was fired at by Free State troops from the Bridewell. At about 11.15 a.m. I was wearing a white medical coat on which were three large red crosses, and was proceeding to bring in a wounded soldier of No. 3 Post.
On the return journey, while I was aiding the wounded man to come in, I was again subjected to rifle fire from the same direction, and was forced to put down his life wounded man, who had then to crawl in, though bleeding profusely, and his life wounded man, who had then to crawl in, though bleeding profusely.
(Signed)
M.O. Barracks.
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POBLACHT NA h=EIREANN.
WAR NEWS No. 6.
SUNDAY, JULY 2
Seventh Year of the Republic
PRICE THREEPENCE
THE FIGHT GOES ON
LATEST INTELLIGENCE—Official
The Republican forces operating in Dublin have been reinforced with both men and material. For military reasons no further information can be given on this subject at the present time.
I.R.A. Prisoners Treated as Criminals
DESPATCH FROM COMDT.-GEN. LIAM MELLOWS.
Mountjoy Criminal Prison,
11 p.m., 30/6/22.
At 9 p.m. to night 50 prisoners of the Irish Republican Army were brought under heavy escort to Mountjoy Criminal Prison. On arrival there they demanded, through the Chief of Staff, Comdt.-Gen. Joseph McKelvey, that they be treated as prisoners of war. To this demand the officer in charge of the prison garrison troops of the so-called Provisional Government replied that the orders issued him by his superior, Gen. O'Duffy, were that no concessions were to be granted—that speaking on behalf of the Republican prisoners, then stated that they would refuse to enter the cells, and that they would have to be carried there by force.
After further parley, the O.C. in charge of the prison garrison, decided not to use force to put into effect his orders. The latest development of the situation is that at the moment of writing, 11 p.m., the orders issued to the O.C. of the prison are:—"That the Republican prisoners are to enter the cells without any conditions being agreed to, before staff. Failing of the Republican prisoners are to lie on the grass and attempt to escape they are to be shot. The prisoners are to move about or attempt to escape they are to be shot. The prisoners have accepted the alternative, and many of them are asleep on the grass. The soldiers of the Army of the Irish Republican Government of the Republic Mountjoy Criminal Prison recognise only the authority of the Government of the Republic they fought to establish, and during the last few days they sacrificed all and suffered to maintain. Here in this spot, sacred to the memory of Kevin Barry and other martyrs of the Republic, they deny the authority of any usurping Government that recognises the right of the British King in Ireland. With this principle they are prepared to carry on the fight for the Republic inside the jail.
(Signed) LIAM MELLOWES
Comdt.-Gen., I.R.A., Camp. Adjutant.
LATER.
At midnight, June 30th-July 1st, the prisoners were forcibly removed by the Civic Guard in uniform, 4 men to each prisoner, and dragged into cells.
"CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY"
FALSE PROPAGANDA OF THE FREE STATE.
In a Proclamation issued on the 30th the Provisional Government said: "We ask no man or woman to yield up any ideal or principle. Liberty will be secured to all under constitutional guarantees, but it will be constitutional liberty.
This is barefaced deception, meant to deceive the Irish people and the world. We are to achieve the constitutional liberty of the Republican Government. We are to be able to give up our Republican ideal, and to achieve it that we need, under a system of constitutional guarantees.
The first answer to that is that the Republic is not an ideal. It is a living fact, whose existence up to the moment even Free Staters have admitted by acknowledging the authority of Dail Ei cann, the Parliament of the Republic. They are destroying the Republic. We are unholding it.
The second answer is to point to the Free State Constitution, dictated at the point of the bayonet by Lloyd George and Churchill. Every loophole for the achievement of national independence is closed by this shameful document.
Republicans are made outlaws and this so-called "Constitution."
Republicans cannot swear an oath of allegiance to the King of England.
They cannot elect members to a Parliament of which the English King is a part, and whose members will swear that servile oath.
They cannot recognise the authority of such a Parliament or the validity of its laws, which have to receive the assent of the English King.
They cannot accept the authority of an Executive whose head is the English King.
They cannot accept the authority of a Governor planted in Ireland as the King's deputy to appoint Irish Ministers and Judges; veto, if it pleases, Irish Acts, and control appoint Irish administration.
Republicans cannot do these things.
How, then, are they to work constitutionally for the Republic? They cannot do so. However few or many they are, they cannot do so.
The Treaty and the Constitution compel all honest Republicans to deny and allegiance solely to the living and indestructible liberty.
Prisoner Shot in Mountjoy
At 5.10 p.m. at Mountjoy Prison to-day three shots were fired. Immediately afterwards some of the Republican prisoners shouted to their friends that one of their comrades was shot at and wounded by a warder. A doctor arrived that one of their comrades was given to the people.
Several persons witnessed the prisoners shout to people outside. Prisoners withdrawn from windows.
Prisoner was shot by a Free State soldier, not by a warder. LATER.
THE WEST'S AWAKE
Galway Free State troops have sent a despatch to the Free State G.H.Q. appealing for reinforcements, as they are being strongly pressed by our troops and cannot hold longer, larger, less than the West's Awake!
ESCAPED PRISONERS
Of the prisoners who escaped from Jameson's troops are—Comdt.-Gen. Ernest O'Maille, and Comdt.-Gen. Joseph McKelvey. Officers of the Republican Army Executive.
FOUR COURTS NOTES
BY AN ESCAPED PRISONER.
The Free State Press contains reports of the shooting by the "irregulars" at Red Cross officials. This is untrue.
On the other hand, a continuous fire was kept up on the hospital in the Four Courts.
Comdt. Daly, on this being pointed out to him, refused to remedy the matter, and the firing at the hospital continued. It was necessary on this account to transfer all the hospital staff under medical coverage.
The firing upon a Red Cross medical officer while carrying in a wounded Republican soldier has already been reported.
Men fighting for the Republic attacked at the Four Courts by some of those who fought with them for the Republic in the Custom House last year. The defenders of the Four Courts were fighting for the same cause. Their assailants took the place of the men.
The position of the men in the Four Courts at the time of the surrender was a hopeless one. They had retired to the last available quarters, the rest of the building having been blown in.
Shells having been played on these quarters, while the only point of retreat was covered by armoured cars and machine gun emplacements.
Free State officers expressed the belief that in such a retreat not a man could escape.
The men marched out with their heads up, not with their hands up, as stated in the daily Press.
During the fighting Comdt.-General O'Connell, of the Free State Army, was given the best possible treatment. As each position in which he was held became dangerous he was transferred to the next safest position. After three hours of the siege General O'Connell expressed his amazement that the Republican troops had not already surrendered and that the place had not been taken.
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POBLACHT NA h=EIREANN
WAR NEWS No. 121
Friday, 22nd December, 1922
Seventh Year of the Republic
Price Twopence
Why Rory O'Connor was Shot
ARMY RECORDS
IN THE FIELD
A STARTLING LOCUMENT
The following letter from the late Comdt. Gen. Rory O'Connor, dated from Mountjoy Jail, appeared in our issue of Thursday, 3rd August. It reveals a degree of treachery on the part of Richard Mulcahy almost unequalled by any man during the entire British regime in Ireland.
"The lies and hypocrisy of the Free State leaders are astounding, especially to those of us who took part in the army negotiations for Unity and know the whole inner history of these negotiations.
We were never requested to evacuate the Four Courts, on the contrary at one meeting of the Coalition Army Council, at which Mulcahy, O'Duffy, Mellows, Lynch and myself were present, we were only asked to evacuate the Ballast Office, Kildare Street Club, the Musonic Hall and Lever Bros. At that stage we actually discussed co-ordinated military action against N.E. Ulster, and had agreed on an officer who would command both Republican and F.S. troops in that area. We were also to send from the South some hundreds of our rifles for use in that area. The reason given was that it would never do if rifles—which had been handed to the "Government" for use against the Republic and which of course could be identified—were found in use against Craig. An exchange of rifles was effected. It should be remembered that at this time the "Government" was publicly declaring that it was the "mutineer" section of the Army which was fighting the Ulster people.
At this meeting I have referred to, some one suggested the evacuation of the Four Courts, and Mulcahy laughingly said that as long as we held that place, the war against N.E. Ulster would be attributed to us. We, of course, had no objection. From this you see the real reason why we were not asked to evacuate the Four Courts. (We subsequently got 25 minutes to do so.)"
Free State troops raided Mr. Hobans, Newsagent, Parnell Street, on the 13th of November and took away with them photographs of the leaders executed in 1916—Pearse, Connolly, McDonagh, etc. They stated that they had been authorised to seize all such photographs.
In our issue of the 16th inst. we gave a short issue of the careers of the four great Irish soldiers who were murdered in Mountjoy Prison on Dec. 8th. We now give a somewhat more complete, but still entirely inadequate, account, leaving their future biographers to interpret and record the lifetimes of devotion and service of which the following details are but shadowy outlines.
Comdt.-General Rory O'Connor joined the Irish Volunteers shortly after their formation and previous to 1916, gave considerable assistance in organising the engineering and chemical sections. He took part in 1916 Rising and escaped after the surrender. He immediately threw himself into the work of reorganising the volunteers and was subsequently appointed Director of Engineering on the Headquarter Staff, a position which he held up to the Volunteer Convention last March when he was elected on the Executive Council of the I.R.A. It was he who organised all the jail escapes in England and the majority of those in Ireland and in addition to his duties on the H.Q. Staff, he was O/C of the I.R.A. in Britain. Arrested in 1920, he succeeded in escaping from the Curragh Camp.
Major-General Lim Mellows joined the Fianna when he was but 15 years old. He travelled practically every county in Ireland, in organising the Fianna all over Ireland. When the Volunteers were founded he was elected a member of the Executive Council, and his special knowledge in drill instruction, etc, was availed to the full. During the months preceding the Rising there was hardly a county he did not visit in his work of organising and drilling the Volunteers. In 1916 he was put in command of the Western Division and when the Rising was ordered he mobilised the men of Galway, which was the only county besides Wexford and Dublin to make a stand. After an arduous time in the Galway mountains, he succeeded in escaping to America where he helped to build up the organisation known as the Friends of Irish Freedom and subsequently the A.A.R.R. He accompanied President de Valera in his tours through the United States. On returning to Ireland in 1920 he was appointed Director of Purchases on the H.Q. Staff and he held this position until the Volunteer Convention last March, when he was elected on the Executive Council and appointed Q.M.G. A few weeks before his death he was appointed Minister of Defence to the Irish Republican Government. He took a prominent part in the Army negotiations early this year.
Comdt. Joseph McKelvey was O/C of the 3rd Northern Division during the late war and was cliently responsible for all the operations carried out in the Belfast area against the British. After the I.R.A. Convention last March he was appointed Assistant Chief of Staff.
Comdt. Dick Barrett was one of the leading officers in Cork against the British. He was Q.M. of the 3rd Cork Brigade which did most of the fighting during the late war under the leadership of Tom Hales; and subsequently Liam Dray. After the I.R.A. Convention in March he was appointed Assistant Q.M.G. He was one of those who made the sensational escape from Spike Island in 1921.
CARRICKMACROSS BATTALION.
13th Nov. Our men prepared for an ambush at Tullyvaragh. Castleblaney Carrickmacross Road. The mine we had laid on the road was discovered and we were obliged to withdraw lifting the mine. The discovery was reported to the enemy at Carrickmacross, who came out with big reinforcements. They opened fire with Lewis guns on two plantations adjoining the road, and continued firing for upwards of half-an-hour. They then searched the adjoining fields and houses and retired finding nothing. All our men escaped and sustained no losses.
16th Nov. One of our men who was arrested by cycling patrol escaped same day with one of the guard, taking one rifle with them. The enemy—200 strong—searched from Lisdooman and Conduff to Ballybay but failed to find them.
17th Nov. Ten of our men engaged a cycling patrol of 35 men on the Carrick to Crossmaglen road (at Kilmurry). The patrol was coming in extended order and occupied two miles of the road. Our men opened fire on the main body. The enemy took cover and returned the fire. The engagement lasted two hours. Three of the enemy were wounded and most of their bicycles were knocked out of action. Our men sustained no casualties.
The Murder of Section Commander Graham, I.R.A.
The following is from a fellow-officer. On the night of the 25th November at 9.15 p.m. section Com. Graham and myself were proceeding down Leeson Street when we were hated by F.S. troops in a tender coming in the opposite direction. Two officers jumped out and searched us. The one who searched Graham, found his revolver, and jumping back a couple of vards, "By —— you are for it to-night." Immediately a shot was fired from the car and poor Graham fell at my feet. The same officer then shouted to the men in the car "Come on boys surround this B——" but the other officer said, "that man is alright I have searched him," so they allowed me to go. This is a true statement of what actually happened.
The Looters
Recently, the house of Private Rupert Fox, Free Stater, was raided by a party of I.R.A. in search of a revolver and uniform. The uniform and a .45 Webley were captured. Upon searching the man's overcoat a heavy bronze medal and a silver one were found. They were the property of the Duke of Devonshire. Visiting roads belonging to the Duke of Devonshire and the Duchess (Lady Maud Cavendish) also were found as well as a military pass out of Wellington Barracks.
This man was stationed some time ago at Lismore Castle, and from enquiries made it was ascertained that the above-mentioned articles were stolen from their.

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POBLACHT na h-EIREANNWAR NEWS No. 47
Thursday, 24th August, 1922
Seventh Year of the Republic
Price Twopence
MICHAEL COLLINS.
Yesterday the nation was shocked by the news of Michael Collins death. As a soldier he fell while directing the F.S. Army against the troops of the Republic. He has given his life for the Treaty and, not less readily than the closest of his brother-officers, we acknowledge his bravery though we know that the cause he has died to support is not worthy of the sacrifice of even one life. Nor can we, at this tragic moment, forget that the war in which he has fallen was of his own making, or that it was he who declared with most emphasis that there would be no peace until the I.R.A. had laid down its arms. If he had kept his solemn agreement of May 20th and established the National Coalition Ministry for which the people declared by the return of 93 Panel Candidates, he would today again be at the head of a resurgent and world-honoured people. Now his boundless energy and inexhaustible resource are no more. How many others of our Cathal Brughas and Harry Bolands and Collins will fall as a result of the accursed instrument signed in London on December 6th? In this supremacy of tragedy we find it only in our hearts to wish that God's curse may overwhelm the treacherous English Ministers who have compassed the ravaging of our nation that it may become part of their diabolical Empire.
IN THE FIELD
THE I.R.A. IN THE WEST.
We have received from an officer of the 3rd Western Division details of the recent fighting in that area. In the 2nd week of July a small I.R.A. post learned that Col-Comdt. McCabe T.D. of the F.S. forces was about to effect a landing with 200 men at Rockley near Sligo Harbour. Some hours later the steamer "Tartar" hove in sight. It was met by rapid rifle from board replied with machine gun fire and incessant volleying. After \frac{1}{2} hour Lewis gunner was shot and immediately the "Tartar" took a heavy list, the F.S. troops crowding to the side furthest from the shore. Eventually the vessel retreated to its base. Col-Comdt. McCabe is stated to have reported to his superior officer that he would need 2,000 men to effect a landing in this area. The I.R.A. post in question consisted of SEVEN men. "Catching a Tartar" has now a more jovial significance in the West. Three days later an I.R.A. flying column marched to Bundoran and captured and disarmed an outpost of 8 F.S. troops without firing a shot. One of the captured men declared that if he ever fired a shot at the I.R.A. it would be by accident.
The following action described by this officer is a typical instance of how the F.S. censor hides the truth. On August 5th the Press reported the blowing up of the Ulster Bank in Sligo suggesting that it was unoccupied except for the manager and his wife. In fact the bank was garrisoned by 12 F.S. troops who were captured and disarmed, a mine having made a breach in the stoutly built Bank wall through which a small party of I.R.A. rushed the building. After the capture our troops remained in the town and engaged all the F.S. posts in it, finally withdrawing with their boots.
"Clear Duty" for Catholics in 1915.
To JOIN THE BRITISH ARMY.
In commenting in "Poblacht" No. 43 on the unmeasured denunciation of the I.R.A. by Most Rev. Dr. Foley, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, we pointed out that he had similarly denounced the I.R.A. under Messrs. Collins and Mulcahy while it was at deathgrips with the Black and Tans and had previously with equal vehemence pilloried those who opposed the recruitment of Irishmen for British Regiments during the Great War. The following is a quotation from His Lordship's letter to the British Red Cross meeting in Carlow in January 1915. It was published in the "Freeman's Journal" of Jan. 6th 1915:
His Lordship trusted that "The result of the meeting would be to furnish additional proof of the solidarity of the people in the county as regards standing firm at the back of the valiant armies that are fighting so resolutely for the very existence of the Empire.
"The people of this county" he added "can afford to listen without emotion to the vapourings of the handful of extremists at home and abroad who still persist in permitting their hated of England and harden their hearts... We would but regard it as treason to be led astray from the clear path of duty in this crisis of the fortunes of our Empire and of the great world-wide Empire to which, in common with all other constituents, we are proud to belong and around which, in her day of trial we are expected, as loyal and devoted citizens, to rally as one man."
Another Republican atrocity! The "Irish Independent" of the 22nd under the heading "Co Cork De-