The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-03
Machine Gun
 Fire Continues
0Continued From Page One.) Machine Guns Rattle.

Heavy fighting -s gong on III Ssckyilie street. which is swept by | machine gun fire The national army | forces are operating from OcoIrel 1rttl | bridge to the Parnen monument. me return fire of the insurgents Is 1eeple- | | A number of irregulars were sur rounded in the arrest. One of those captured was Briggen MaSulre' con, Cia., manding the First Eastern Dln ..Ss'' isIU!t l of the Irish Republican Army lnsur- gents The prisoners were conVeyeu | to the military barracks. The 1IiSn IIndependent says citizens 'ot Duplln | will welcome the indications conNeyeo in this mornings reports that the struggle is nearing an end and addss i ''This great natiOnl disaster coulo have been avoided had the differences
 which arose amongst us on the slsh- ling of the treaty been settled in the
 ordinary constitutional way whlch tEamCn DeValera himself counselled Tn
 Decembcr, The department from that constitutional path has forcd on the nation all the horrors which ever at- tend civil war"
 , The newspapers praises the restraint [ and discipline displayed by the troops : of the national army and continued: "It is not necessary to express the i, hope that their opponents will receive = from their captors the cle1nency which should be meted out to the
 brave men who but short tune ago
 were their comrades in arms, fighting r for the same cause. The friendship l, which knit the two section into one Il brotherhood makes the thought of n their present bloody conflict more = heartbreaking- Let us nope II VIII De II short lived.
 l. IrrcguIars Weakening. l. Details of the operations Of the na' e tional corps as releaved in the lates :, official Dcommuniques are regarded as
 pointing to impaired morale on the
 part of the irregulars and to the rap st | i'd crumbling of their defense Whel w seriously attacked.
 IS The tact1cs of the provisional gov
 ernment's military leaders in frs
 cleaning out the insurgents' outpost n resulted in continuing the irregular le to positions in a marrow area. De The rapidity with which the Ere ot Staters dislodged the insurgents cause ,n surprise.
 m Yesterdays operations in most case Id were carried out by the use of ar C. mored cars and intense machine gu n- fire.
 r. Apparently only in one case wa
 artillery brought into action and ths
 was the attack on Moran's hotel i
 Talbot street
 [T Wiping out of this hornets nest rt
 lieved considerably the difficulties col si- fronting pedestrians in the center h the city and reopened the main al he Attacks on Outposts. til Clearing OutpoStS in the nelghbo
 hood of Harcourt street and Stephen ge Green was accompanied by heavy fl Int. ing. The attack on the strongho nat in Harbort terrace was particular x a dashing. The Free Staters drove | will suddenly m ar1nored cars ana open an @ herce flre on the hepuo1!CS1hS- - ! oss return volley was scattering. 1T
 national troops promptly stormed t DOT place, capturing the whole part ion 50 defenders.
 will Capture of the Swan hotel in Yo ion | street proved more difficult. In u TO- engagement the RepuDllcdhS mana be ed to escape with the exception
 three, who were wounded The
 tack was made by an armOred car a \ a small force of Free Staters Quartt ON ed in an undertaker's estabhshme
 nearby. The fight lasted seve use i hours.
 yes- The tepuplcanS, "ho were StIo -itb entrenched, had hung a horsesh ned outside a window. They decla1 +he their luck would last as long as
 horseshoe remained. Most of the
 lenders were boys.