Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-01-17
RAIDERS HUNT
IN DUBLIN FOR
MICKEY COLLINS
Sim Fem Chief of Array and
His Assistant Prizes Sought
in Spectacular Attack.
CENTER OF CITY SEIZED

DUBLIN. Jan. 1.-Two important Sim
Fein leaders were the great prize fol.
which 1000 British soldiers sought to-
day In barricaded section Of Dublin. h
room room search was made Of the,
mile square area, made man-tlght by.
miles Of barbed wire. Six arrests had
been reported early in the day, but the
two most sought had not been found.
They. were Michael Collins, commander
in chief Of the republican army, and his.
assistant, Mulcahey.
There were reports that the hunt was
on for president" Eamonn de Valera,
but reliable reports said that official
was not in the city.
Meanwhile, all Ireland was agitated
with raids and threats Of raids.
At Thurles. the cathedral town, 400
meanand women were rounded up in
riA%4aSby the military. The prisoners"
were driven to an open field near the
police barracks and compelled to stand
while officers read a proclamation Ok
martial law The hearers were threat
ened with the severest penalties If they
failed to surrender arms or were Iouh1a
harboring rebels" ~.
MUCH AMMUNITION ~
REPORTED FOUND.
Much ammunition was said to hava
been found at Lisnagry, where nine men
and one woman suspect were captured. .,-,.
The raided area In Dublin presented
a sight never before witnessed in the
Irish difficulties The military in this
operation took possession Of the market
center. Most of the residents were cue
of from their vegetable and fish sup@
plies The only traffic permitted was OF
milk wagons The soldiers were fed from
rolling Kitchens.
within the barricaded district also are
three courts. In one Of these important
cases against Irish prisoners were to be
heard during the day. Rumors were that
the raid was intended in part TO protect
the courts during the trial. All lass
night scores of searchlights played over
the raided district. Soldiers continued
their work in the white light and were
relieved by others in the morning. so
: that the searching was continuous.
/ SOLDIERS RAID
is SPECTACULAR.
The raid was sudden and spectacular.
A feet OF lorries with cargoes of TIM
hated. smiling soldiers dashed down
Dublin streets and skidded TO a stop in
the northern section of the city.
Soldiers leaped over the sides and al-
most instantly had trundled field kitchs
/ tuS lutO puStAioiA ~ prepare III OACelnN-
fast, while q hundred or more began un-
rolling huge spOols OF barber wire twist
ing the strands high above their heads
and weaving an intricate barricade
throughout the chosen district
Searching of residences hogan immedi-
ately, soldiers working toward the CEN
ter of the area occasionally selecting a
house as a vantage point where machine
guns could be mounted on roofs and
sandbag barbados established in the
windows.
! Late in the morning two Catholic
churches in the section were visited. the
men being searched while the women
were sent to their homes.
/ Priests announced no further services
would be held during the period of occuT
patton. expected to be from three days TO
/ six weeks
/ Viaience famed M throughout south
! ern Ireland. \ heavy attack was made
/ upon the Tuckey street police station in
the city of Cork at o'clock in the
morning Rifles. revolyers and bombs
were used. After a battle Of thirty MIN
utes reinforcements were brought up
ard the attackers fed
Two men were wounded in n tight that
lasted two hours and 4 half near Bally-
mahon. 4 hundred armed men ambushed
! a detachment of police on its way to
BallymahOn