Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer., 1922-04-03
1000 REPUBLICAN
SOLDIERS DESERT
DALI E|REANN ARMY
IRISH RANK AND FILE DIVIDES
ON REPUBLIC PLAN-QUlT COL.
LlNs FORCES TO HELP CAUSE
OF EAMoNN DE VALERA.

Dublin, April S.--(By A. P)-The
serious extent OF the split in the
ranks of the Irish republican army
was revealed Sunday afternoon when,
from the five Dublin battalions which
had been ordered QUITO take a new
oath OF allegience," not less than 1000
men obeyed the republican appeal auj
marched to Smithield.
There. in the presence OF Liam Mel
loves, Roderick O'CoRnor and other
noted heads OF the republican move
ment, they took the oath to free them.
selves from any responsibility TO the
dail eireann.
The extremists last night expressed
entire satisfaction at the response TO
their appeal A large crowd, includ.
ing contingents from the womens or.
ganizations, witnessed the parade of
the battalions, but gave no demon.
stration Of sympathy.
The campaign OF election Oratory
continued Sunday. canon de Valera
addressed a demonstration at Dundalk
Referring to the new peace pact he
said that already in North Ireland il
was regarded as a scrap Of paper
Michael Collins at Castlebar said the
new agreement added immensely to
the prospects Of a union between the
north and south.
Four Slain.
Belfast. April 3.-Four men were
shot and killed and three children
We're wounded Saturday night in the
Sim Fein area near the Old Lodge
road district The ages of the men
ranged from 40 to SO. The children
are 2 and l3.
The shooting Of the men IS be
lieycd 10 have been in reprisal for the
killing Saturday Of Constable George
Turner, regular policeman for four
teen years The assassin fired at
Turner from a vacant house and es
capped.
Later heavy rife and revolver fir.
ing, punctuated with the shrieks of
women and children, was heard and
shortly afterward the bodies Of the
victims were taken to a hospital. Tile
father of the children, Joseph Walsh,
was one of the men killed
Walsh, who lived in Alton street, |
was lying in bed with the two younger
children, and the bullet which killed |
him wounded them. Two-year-old |
Bridget was shot through the head
Frank Walsh. a son of Joseph !
Walsh, was at the home of his grand |
mother a few doors distant The |
grandmothes's house also was raidej |
The intruders rushed upstairs, seized |
Frank. who was trying to escafe |
through a window, and pitched him |
downstairs. His injuries are not Sc
rious.
The grandmother said Joseph Walsh |
had served five years in the war on |
the western front and had returned |
home unscathed. She had thirteen |
sons and nephews in the war, only |
two of whom returned.
And this is my reward the old
lady sobbed
In the home of a relative of the |
Walsh family yesterday morning a !
bullet passed through the arm of a
neighbor holding baby and pierced |
the child,s stomach.
The body of young man was
found lying in the road at midnight
three miles from Newry. There were
two bullet wounds in his head and
bicycle lay beside the body
g Orange hall, near Newry and close
to the scene of the recent train burn
ing, was destroyed by fire by armed |
men, who first ordered out the woman
Caretaker and her four children and |
threw out the furniture. The woman |
and her children We're left on the
bleak mountain until befriended by |
neighb0rs