The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-14
SOUTH REMAINS
 ONLY TURBULENT
 PART OF IRELAND

Dublin, Nov. 14-(By The A.
 PO-The current increase of ac-
 I1vity of armed forces opopsing
 the Irish government is attrib-
 uted to reunion of the political
 and military winSs Of Republi-
 fh'nsn Thnism' n,aed Thlsi , among the ns.i other
 nfent of IIamon de Valera as
 ''president of the Irish RepubIic'
 with council of state claiming
 sole legitimate authority in Ire-
 There is a wide divergence between the accounts published by the govern nent of it's successes, against the IT, regulars, and those put out by de Ealera's party. The government claims to be winning and gradually restoring order. while de valera's fol infieting and assert that the Free State is already beaten.
 There assertions are made partly in propa ganda sold upon the streets and painted nightly all over Dublin on lamp posts, bill boards and bridges
 The civic guard and the Metropo1i thoroughfares but they seem m m unable to check these manifestations of IT, regulars internal dissentions.
 Every day government agents go about and smear paint solidly over the inscriptions. but the next morning they appear again.
 The intensification of activity by the Irregulars is supposed to be par tially aimed at the British political crisis, with the design Of bringing home to the British the thought that | the Irish question remains in spite of the treaty. When the new British par1iamen assemblies and the consti- tuition of the Free State is submitted for ratification, it is expected that the activities of the Irregulars will be fur l ther intensified.
 Except in the south, all large bodies | of Republican forces have been dis persed in a wholesale manner by Ma l t1onal troops, but small bands are able l to inflict constant losses and humilia- l tion upon the government by their ac- 1 tivitfes in Dublin and elsewhere. Re pressive power has been granted to | the government by the parliament, but the Republicans have never be- ieved these powers would be fully exercised, and so far their forecasts have been for the most part accurtae The Free State government has 30, 900 troops fully equipped and costing nearly $S,000,000 year. Yet the at tacks of the Irregu1ars are made in confidence of escape and with the
 thought that even if they are caught, they will suffer nothing more than de- tention in prison.
 If members of the Irish par1iam ent which resumes Wednesday, express in public what some of them have been saying in private, there is sure to be searching criticism of the govern ment inefectiveness against the Ire gulars. The latters policy of disloca- ting railway traffic is witnessed daily in the wholesale burning of signal boxes, some of them on suburban lines quite close to the city. It has become a common thing to seize a train and let it run loose at full speed, certain of a snashup. Appalling con sequences of this wild practice have been obviated so far only by good luck.
 Considering some remarks which have been made and others which have not been made, it is inferred that there are differences of opinion l in the Irish cabinet as to what uoght to be- done to put a stop to the Ire | guiars. Apparently the Republican 1 ledaers are not sediously evadtng ar 1 rest, for the whereabouts of De Va lera and his principal colleagues are | said to be well known