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Full Title	Poblacht na h-Éireann war news, Number 28, Tuesday, August 1st, 1922.
Date Added	30 June 2015
Format	Newspaper
Language	English
Publish Date	1922-08-01
Publisher	[Dublin? : s.n.]
Source	Joseph McGarrity Newspaper Collection
Alternate Title	War news.
Topic	Ireland > History > Civil War, 1922-1923 > Sources. Ireland > History > Civil War, 1922-1923 > Periodicals.
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OCR 1,3. ;‘,. Laesr NA asae v Tuesdxy, 1st August, "1922. Price Twopence II FAILURE. . see State optimism ‘is waning. Their Press speaks dolefully of a. 1 “ longwar ”; for the rebellion against the iepublic is going btdly. The weekend brought Free State reverses at Abeyleiy, Dunclalk, Newport CO. C Ma, Ballinarobe Co. Galway-all arezi of .which theyboasted they were Hostilities have re- “ iiicontrol ”. gu-(Illa war is in full swing in Dublin; 1912 State lines of communication at elutylincessantiy in the ““freed " p;('ix'ices'ot‘ Leinster and Connaught. lit word, having assumed the un- .fijSll0<l task of the Britisli, the liree . tcrs, too, are finding it hopeless. “O V, sparingly’, they adopt’ British ‘tac- a A”t-.-Irish boysarc shot for “failing .:.L‘7g’lifElli,'z'” and “z ttempting to escape,” 17,1-’ ilians are ro'u‘nded-up at-they scene ,. . ,. XX‘ ' a. defeat and are published as “am- Ox’ M .ishers” who had abjectly,surrender- ition; Republican homes are ‘spied fupon‘ by a new race of touts and “G” ’ [men under Mr. Collins-even the - ‘ bereaved home of Cathzil Bruglia is fzylltlt spared. Like Grec1r.wood too, ( 1e Free State junta are trying to ‘l ver their military failures by a foul bropa.gan(la to defame men whom they cannot defeat. All the old tie slanders are revived-'I.ll.A. dis. ‘ fguised as priests, expanding bullets, , brigamlage,‘ loot,lxnurdereto-day as , .' yesterday.nothing is too vile’ to throw at the soldiers of the Republic. But V the Irish people know well that this .is not the work of victors but the un< ‘easy mouthing of men who, having’ set about the British task in the Bri tish way, fear the British end. First Speaker ‘of Dail Eireann ' Mr.‘ Sean ‘T. O'Ccallaigh,” T.D., first speaker of Dail Eireann, and later Minister of the Republic at Paris was seized at his office at Republican political head(juarters in Suffolk St. on Friday afternoon, by armed men in civilian clothes who declared that they were Free State political detect- ives. when asked for their authority they‘produeed revolvers. ‘ cox ienced in Limerick City; the, i d ;,ptisoncrs are tortured forinform- 7 MR. HARRY BOLAND, T.D. Mr. Harry Boland 'I‘.D. lies in‘ danger. of death‘ in v St. Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin. He wasdeliberately shot in the Grand Hotel, Skerries by RS. troops who raided it at 2 mm. yesterday and was dangerously wounded in the stomach. At 9 a.m. this morning his condition was still critical. '. ' 'WA‘N'l‘ED MEN. The gifollowing warrant has been issued for the arrest of the Governor of Mountjoy Jail and the Minister of Defence. , “;Sgl‘ltElIl‘l COURT. vvAR1r,iNi 1r'oR ARRESZ‘. - ‘ s Wuerzi-us by: an Order hearing date of 19th day of July 1822' in the matter oil(ienrge Oliver 1’lunkett it was.ordered that Colin Ua Murchadlia and liiseard Ua Maolcliatha do this day at eleven o'clock iii the foronoon at‘ 1; 141 before this Court :‘,nd bring there-' to the body of the said George Oliver .Plunkett. ANI).WiiEi:r..vs the said Colin Ua Marc-hadha and the said liiseard Ua M-aolchatlia have failed to comply with the said Order. This is therefore to command you forthwith to appreiimul the said Colin Ua Hurchadha and the said Riseard Ua Maolchatha and ‘to bring them before me or some other Judge oi the Supreme Court to [be dealt with ac- cording to law. ' Dated this 26th day ofJuly, 1922. ’ ‘ (Signed) . Dumioxo O CRUADIILAOICH. Judge of the Su[>r:me Court. and all Police Officers, , and all Oliiccrs and Soldiers of the Irish Republican Army (Irish Voluiyl teers).” ..;rz"“I..,.. Castle Tactics. T()i‘.Tl7RE or P1:1soNEr.s'. Gross ill-treatment of Republican prisoners continues in Wellington Free State Barracks, Dublin. ‘ The following statement signed by the ilhtreated‘ prisoner and witnessed by three of his comrades makes one forget that there [ has been any change in the occupants of the Barracks since the Terror. “On arriving at above Barracks on July 27th, after being taken from the car [was pushed and knocked arounld the. gateway beside the Guardroom, and then brought iu- , I was beaten about the back’ V - side. and nearly choked because I refused to give information. They threat- ened to fling a bomb amongst the four of us. , They placed me with V my back to the wall, told me‘ to‘ say my prayers as was to be VS'll0gi7' All this happened in‘1't‘l1e“:preSDl1ce of a prominent Officer of the Free ‘ State Army (Comdt. F. Bolster), in fact he was the main aggressorff RUN Fen Ir! One of the favourite sports of the Black and Tans will be recalled by the following ze At 1.15 this morning Saturday 29th July, theihouse of Mr Frank Cullen, 47, Iiadllington Road, was raided by Free Staters. ' Two men in the house were thoroughly search- ed. O[C said he had no charge against them, but would bring them along in the lorry. Onelof them said, ‘That. is unfair,’ and was struck’. in the face. They were driven for two hours through the streets and at the top of Crafton Street were told they were about .‘to be shot. ‘They were put out of the lorry and called on to run. They walked away amid fierce cries of “Run, Run, we are going to fire." Brigadier Qen. O’Daly‘was with the raiders. EANNf Wee NaWs'Np.28 p Seventh Year of the Republic: I A . 9 ‘