The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-07
M ! N IS I E R
 OF DEFENCE IN CABINET
Interpid Leader of In-
 surgents R e ce iv e d. Mortal Wound During. Final Stand at Gran vile Hotel.

Dublin, July 7-(By the As-' sOciated Press)-CathaI Bruqa, one of Ramon DeValera's chief lieutenants, died this morning
 from the wounds he received on Wednesday while trying to fight his way clear at the sur
 render of the Republican gar-
 risOns in the SackviIIe street
 area. Cathai Bruga, (CharIes
 Burgess), was one of the most
 prominent of the Republican leaders who opposed the terms
 of the Anglo-frish treaty. Opposed to Pact. -Brugha was DeValera's minister of defense in the first Dali Eireann cab met, directing the campaign against the British in South Ireland. When the terms of the treaty became known pact,
 His address against ratification of the pact was one of the principal fea- lures of the debate in January last. He accused Griffith of having broken an agreement not to sign the treaty until the document was submitted to the Irish cabinet and he gave active
 
 l against the provisional government after the treaty was ratified.
 He was a party to the pact between i the factions under which the June elections were held and he was re- elected to parliament. With the Insurgents. When the dispute between the fac- tions broke out anew Brugha sided with the insurgents. At the end he refused to surrender and dashed out of the Granville ho- tel, where the insurgents were maknf their final stand, only to reeve mortal 1 injuries.
 Cork, July 7-The regular com 1 munique issued from Republican | headquarters at Nallow claims ths l irregulars are making progress in southern Ireland. Capture of several l more Free State posts is reported 1 these including Mount Be1lew, county
 Galway; Collooney, Sligo; Ballina- | and Urlingford, on the killlenny-Tip- perary border
 Belfast. July 7-An enve1oping
 movement by Free State troops has 1 been begun in North Donegal and 8 | clash between the rival forces seemed | imminent today.
 | Reports from the Republican l stronghold at Glenveigh Castle and
 Inch Fort indicate that the occupants
 are preparing for desperate stands.
 Large parties of Republicans ars 1 operating in the bridge end district 1 of Donegal to harass the advance of 1 the national army. | Belfast, July 7-LAIl of the Irsh mid Hands are now under control of the provisional government forces. The | fighting at Cloyn castle, and Ros- mead house at Delvn, county West | meath, ended with the surrender of 1 the Republican garTisons to Captan Con1on of the Free State forces. The prisoners were removed to the NIullin- ] gar barracks.
 of sixty Republicans who attacked the Free Sites barracks a Lifford, coun- 1 ty Donegal, today, were wounded, and | the fight lasted an hour and a half, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch. The inhabitants of Lifford. panic stricken. were preparing to leave town as the despatch was sent Dublin. July 7-Approximate1y TOO l regulars were taken prisoner by the National army during the struggle in Dublin which was brought to a close | in the Sa1ckville street area Wednes- 1 day.
 | Dublin today showed signs of set 1 ting down after the period of hostili- l ties in the heart of the city Tn the | hotels. and has twenty less hostelries | than in 1914. More than 200 hotel workers have been thrown out of em- | ployment.
 It was announced at headquarters today that the Republicans had burn l ed the Masonic hall at BaIlinasloe | Galway.