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Full Title	Poblacht na h-Éireann war news, Number 56, Tuesday, September 12th, 1922.
Date Added	1 July 2015
Format	Newspaper
Language	English
Publish Date	1922-09-12
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 .. ....Lu W. T POBLACHT NA h=EIREANN r WAR NEWS NO. 56 Tuesday, 12th September, 1922. THE PARTITION PARLIAMENT. The “ Southern Parliament" met at ll a.ru. on Saturday amid marked public apathy. Its first act was the forcible expulsion of Lawrence Ginnell for asking whether the assembly was the lawful Third Dail, rGovernment of all Ireland, or the unlawful and alien Partition Parliament. Cosgrave’s only answer was a blow. The as- sembly. expressly mandated by the nation to be the Third Government of the Republic and to set up, irrespective of the Treaty issue, a Coalition Ministry,has thus publlcly chosen to be a foreign body and, denying its own national character. has renounced every shred of lawful authority over the Irish people. In spite of that renunciation, it set up a " Government ” which pledges itself (a) to enforce by means of wara Treaty approved solely as a means to avoid war ; (b) to enact a Constitution re-establishing the British Monarchy in Ireland]; (c) to support its Colonial Army in a traitorous war upon the Republic ; (d) to repress the “crime" of defending the declared indepen- dence of Ireland ; and (e), having thus erected Churchill's latest colony upon a foundation of Irish corpses, “to speed up the work of reconstruction and reparation." We are glad that after nine months the domestic enemiesof the Republic havedefinitely come into the open as domestic enemies. As such they will be op- posed. Ignoring the national will for peace they have elected to wage war. The responsibility is theirs and their defeat, already assured, will be upon their own heads. The nation may rest satisfied thatpto-day, no less than in I921, a Partition‘ Parliament will never function in Ireland. Suppressed Actions. HOtV “ VICTORY " IS MADE. The Press gives the semblance of vic- tory to the F.S. military operations by the simple process of suppressing F.S. losses and even actions themselves. Recent engage- ments in Dublin have been either falsely re- ported or not reported at all. Examples are; Aug 29th. Ford car with 5 F.S. officers ambushed at Mespil Rd. at 9.45. p.m. Enemy sustainslossesin wounded. Attack not reported by the F.S. Command or Press. . Aug 31st. 5 l.R.A. ambush enemy tender with I2 troops in Grafton St. at9.45. Two F.S. troops wounded. Enemy official report ‘conceals casualties. Aug 31st. F.S. motor patrol ambushed in Parnell St. at 10.30 p.m. and a second pat- rol in the same street at 1 hrs p.m. Neither attack reported by enemy. Sept ist. At 40.30 p.m. l.R.A. motor patrol attacked guard at King's Inns, wounding one. or reported by enemy. Sept. Isi. At 9.30 p.m. l.R.A. patrol attack- ed F.S. lorry of to troops at North VVall, near Commons’ St. Two enemy troops wounded. Not reported by snemy. 1 Sept. ist. Enemy issues fantastic report purporting to describe incident in Stephen's Green where, the report says, 4 I-'.S,. Officers leaving their car to investigate “suspicious looking men" were Ered on. They returned the fire and drove off “the irregulars," wounding one. The facts of this action, one of the biggest that has occurred in Dublin, are given in the follow- ing official I.R.A. report : “At 3 p.m. at Stephen's Green a small I.R.A. patrol were about to capture a C.l.D. car when a Ford car containing 6 F.S. troops rushed towards them. Our outpost shot the driver and the car dashed into an electric light standard which broke and fell on the car. A fight then took place, three of the enemy being killed and three woun- ded. The C.l.D. pursued our troops who fired upon them, wounding three. One of our men was slightly wounded.” In addition to the above many raids were carried out by our troops in which 64 field glasses for country columns were taken at noon on the 30th from nine Dublin shops. In houses of enemy troops 45 sticks of gelig- nite, 300 rounds of ammunition. and arms were found. The sniping of enemy posts. was incessant, the ES. troops replying with wild and protracted fire which took no effect. “ Poblacht na h-Eireann," Southern Edition. reports the following actions which were also falsely described in the Dublin Press : On August 16th a motor patrol of 6F.S. troops was ambushed on the road from Killarney to Rathmore. Two odicers were wounded and the others then pulled out Red . Crosses and pinned them on. VVhilt- some of our men were helping the wounded into a cottage a strong F.S. patrd comprising an armoured car and several lorries of troops came up. They were also engaged and after a stiff fight they retreatedleaving two lorries behind which our men burned. On Aug. 25th two lorries of F.S. troops were attacked by long-range machine-gun fire at Inniscarra. VVhile firing was in pro. gress reinforcements were sent for and an armoured car from Cork came up. The F.S. convoy then moved off by another road and eventually reached Donoughmore where it was again ambushed by I,R.A. and after a short engagement was forced lo return to Cork. The PS. Press reported 5 enemy wounded ; the l.R.A. official states the num- bar was nine. The statement in the F.S. Press that so I.R.A. were found dead after the Loo Bridge ambush on the 25th, when a patrol under Mr. Finian Lynch was ambushed twice on the road from Killarney to Kilgarvan, has amused the I.R.A. column in question which sustained not asingle casualty. The Press stated Gen. Lynch lost 8 men wounded. His real loss was 12 wounded. ANOTHER Vicrokv-Under 5 lines ofllare headings announcing " Big round up of lrregulars-Mountains scoured by troops- Prisoners taken over wide area" the “ In- dependent” of Friday last described the capture of six members of the l.R.A. and on Fianna Scout. Seventh Year of the Republic. Price Twopence SILENT BISHOPS Most Rev. Dr. Hackett, Bishop of Vllaterford, has not yet denounced the murder of Vol. J. J. Edwards in Kilkenny Prison on August 19th. Edwards was one of Dr. Hackett's Hock. Most Rev. Dr. Hallinan, Bishop of Limerick, has not yet denounced the murder while in custody of Vol. M. Dunford on Aug. 19th, or Vol. H. Brazier on Aug. 25th at Limerick. His Grace Archbishop Harty of Cashel has not denounced the murder of Vol. Martin Conlon in Clonmel jail on August 15th. His Grace Archbishop Byrne of Dublin has not denounced the murders of William Saunders (I6) on luly 8th ; Patrick Phelan on July 16th; Comdt. Harry Boland on Aug. rst; Hyacinth D'Arcy on Aug. 4th; Vol. J. Hudson on Aug. roth; Comdt. Cole, Vice- Brig. Colley, Lt. Daly. on Aug. 16th; and Vol. Rodney Murphy. Vol. Leo Murray and J. J. Stephens on Sept. and; all members of his flock. He however permitted the refusal of Absolution to these men and their comrades in jail. Most Rev. Dr. Foley, Bishop of Kildare. and Leighlin has not denounced the murder of Vol. R. Monks when a prisoner at the Curragh or Vol. lohn Hickey in Portlaoighise Prison on August 30th. Most Rev. Dr. Coyne, Bishop of Elphin has not denounced the murder of Vol. Edward Boylan “while attempting to escape" at Athlone. ‘National Scouts’ & ‘Brigandsl C A PARALLEL FROM THE BOER VVAR, In his Book -‘ Three Years War " the famous General De VVet states that he would have defended the South African Republics successfully but for the traitorous Boers who went over to the English and fought against him. These Boers were called by the British " National Scouts," Twenty years later Ireland has her “ National Army " fighting for the Empire against their own Republic! Elsewhere in his book De Wet says: “The fact that we fought throughout the Free State in small detachments, put the English to some trouble, for they felt themselves obliged to discover avocabulary of names to apply to us- Thus when Lord Roberts. on the 24th May. igoo, proclaimed the Orange Free State (and afterwards the Transvaal) as annexed by the British Crown. he described those -who continued to fight as rebels. Then again we were called ‘Sniping Bands‘ and ‘Brigand:x’." De Wet did not live to see history repeat itself. But at least it was the English enemy which called his soldiers “brigands." The soldiers oflreland who fought on after Ire- land had been signed traitorously over to the British Crown were called "brigands ” by Griffith, Collins, Beasley and their colleagues, and by the Irish Catholic Bishops. The ‘Voice of the People. They say all; Let him be crucified. The Governor said to them: VVhy. what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying: Let him be crucified. And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing. but that rather a tumult was made; taking water washed his hands before the people saying : I am innocent of the blood of this just man ; look you to it. And the wrrou: rxonit answering, said; His blood be upon us and upon our children. St. Matthew. Ch. :7, vv. :2. :3, 24. :5. And “the ‘Vill of the People" prevailed.