The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-29
INSURGENTS
HOLD GROUND
UNDER FIRING
Free State Troops Unable to
Dislodge O'Connor's Band
Snipers Busy = Opera
tions Extended Over City.
MENACE BY AMBUSHES
CBy Associated press)

DUBLIN, June 29.-Rory O'Connor's |
band of insurgent Irish republican
army men was still holding out in its
Four Courts stronghold at noon today |
against the continuing attempts of the |
Free State troops to dislodge it.
Firing was in progress all forenoon |
and there was an especially heavy |
burst Of fire at eleven o'clock Snip !
ing operations were almost incessant !
with the casualties estimated this
forenoon at more than fifty, hourly in
creasing.
The insurgents nave extended their
operations in other parts of the city
Shortly before noon an ambush of
Free State troops was reported from
College Green and the irregulars were
fortifying various outposts. party
of Free State forces on the watch for
insurgent activities poured a volley
into a public house in the vicinity of
yesterdays ambush
One of the outlying places seized by
the irregulars was the Sackville street
club, an old fashioned aristocratic
country gentlemans club near the Mel
organized operations of the insurg-
ents their sympathizers in several
parts OF the city acting as snipers
made many attacks on Free State
soldiers.
Replies Feeble.
Meanwhile the replies from O'Con-
ner's men to the firing on the Four
Courts was feeble The garrison
which is believed to number 100, is
said TO have unlimited supplies of
ammunition and plenty of provisions.
The prospect was that the opera
tions at The Four Courts would in
creasingly assume the character of
an investment. The building lends it.
self peculiarly to defensive purposes,
and it is considered unlikely that the
Free State troops will. at least for the
present attempt to take it by assault
The most menacing feature of tho
situation from the provisional govern
ment standpoint, is the fact that the
insurgents are developing activities
along guerilla lines, particularly in
the form of annbushes. Many of the
insurgents wear no uniforms and the
Free State soldiers like the British
before the truce are exposed to at
tack while traversing narrow streets
The prevalence of these tactics
makes it seem improbable to the gov
ernment side that the situation
throughout the city will speedily be-
come much better.
Communication Cut
Direct telegraphic communication
between Dublin and the north ana
west of Ireland is practically at a
standstill A number of wires between
Dublin and London were cut last night
near Howth
In other parts of the country, the
provisional government also has mill
tary affairs on it's hands. In Drogheda
the insurgents who are occupying the
round tower fort on the hill command
ing the town have been invested by
the Free State troops in the same way
as at the Four Courts in Dublin. The
Drogheda position of the irregulars is
regarded as unusually strong.
From other parts of Ireland there
are many rumors of insurgent action,
but the reports are difficult of con.
drmation, as Dublin is completely
isolated
Both sides have been active in the
issuance of manifestoes, three state
ments have been given out by the gov
ernment within twenty-four hours
while both Rory O'Connor and Eamon
DeValeras paper The Republic of Ire
land. which issued O'Connor's com
munique as a stop press supplment
was posted on walls in various parts
of the city. The communique was &C
companied by an editorial statement
saying:
I'm Rory O'Connor and his comrades
- L - 1. l.
soul of Ireland" Erskine Childers
who was defeated for reelection tc
parliament is still editing this journal
\ BELFAST, June 29-Colonel Com
mandant Vaudeville and staff Capt
Vaughan of the Free State forces who
were shot yesterday died of theil
wounds says a message today from
Dublin The officers were crossing
the Lesson street bridge when theil
motor car was fire upon.
Free State troops yesterday carried
out a coup on the main Dublin roat
beyond Drogheda, capturing three o
the principal affairs of the Dundall
irregular troops Commandants P.
McKenna, Michael Donnelly and JohI
McGurl
McKenna is chief of the republi
cans occupying the Anne street bar
racks in Dundalk and Donnelly wa
formerly liason officer for Down an,
Louth.
The three captives were taken t
Drogheda where considerable tension
prevails sas an attack is expected OF
tn Millmount barracks which hav
been in the hands of irregularas TO
the last two months.