New-York tribune., 1922-11-09
Storm Wellington Bar
racks and Turn Machine
Guns From House Tops
ON 100 Free StateTroops
Battle RACES Hour
I'm Streets of City
Mary MacSwiney on Fifth
Day of Hunger Strike {:
Other Women Hold Out
BIZ Cable 10 The Tribune

! DUBLIN, Nov. S.-~Four men were
killed and many wounded here this
morning in battle thai ragged an hour
in the center of the city when the ir-
regulars made surprise attack on
Wellington barracks. The dead are
one Free State soldier, two republicans
and one civilian.
| AS 100 national soldiers were parad-
ing for inspection in the barracks
they were suddenly raked by fire from
machine guns and rifles, the rebels
| having taken positions along the river
bank and on houserops commanding
the square. Private Murphy, who en-
listed only yesterday, was killed in
| the first volley, and many others were
wounded. The Free Staters, who were
IN close formation, threw themselves
to the ground and crept to cover, from
Which they returned the fire
Battle Continues an Hour
Reinforcements were rushed up from
Porto Bello barracks. and after an
hour exchange of shots, during which
two lrregulars were killed, the attack
ing party was driven off. They were
! regulars in motor lorries. During the
chase a civilian who came in the line
| of fire was killed and little girl on
the way to school was wounded
| "a butchers van which had entered
the square just as the attack began
was riddled, the driver, small bow,
was wounded and the horse was killed.
Six of the rebels and a machine gun
were, captured in the pursuit After
the battle seventeen wounded soldiers
were taken to two city hospitals and
| Several of them are so badly wounded
that their recovery is not expected
! While the battle was raging ambu-
lances dashed through the streets and
all traffic in the center of Dublin was
! suspended. Citizens were held up and
searched for arms, but desultory firing
continued all afternoon.
| A large number of rebels were en-
gagged in the attack, which was we'll
timed and staged with a view of afford
ing the rebels the best possible pro-
lection while they poured in their
| murderous fire.
Fighting at Cork and Mayo
| Battles were also reported in the
counties Of Cork and Mayo and in both
the casualty list was said to have been
heavy. The republicans, under Sean
Moylan, suffered severely in a fight
near Macroom. In this engagement
Captain McDermott, the Free State
leader, was wounded.
| In Cork train was halted under
machine gun and rifle fire, and the
rebels detached the engine and sent it
crashing at full speed into the coaches,
which contained national soldiers. Six
men were badly injured in this exploit
In the Mayo battle seven irregulars
were killed and many wounded. Two
were taken prisoner. The only Free
State casualties were three slightly
wounded.
Mary MacSwiney. sister of the for
mer Lord Mayor of Cork, who starved
himself to death in prison, entered
upon the fifth day of her hunger strike
O'Reilfey, native Of New York and
widow of one of the executed leaders
in the 1916 uprising, is also on a
hunger strike with Miss Humphries
and Miss Murphy. Meetings of protest
against their imprisonment without
trial are being organized and the
homes of Free State ministers are be-
ing picketed. Women sympathizers are
active in this work.
| A protest against the detention at
M ountjoy Prison, Dublin, of Miss Mary
MacSwiney, who also is reported to have
begun hunger strike, was cabled to
the Irish provisional government yes
terday by Michael A. Kelly, organiza-
| tion director of the American Associa-
tion for the Recognition of the Irish
| Republic.
millions of Americans will hold you
responsible for the murder of Mary
MacSwiney if she dies" said the mes
sage addressed to William T. Cosgrave,
president of the Cabinet of the pro-
visional Free State government. "Hu-
| manity demands her release"