The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-08-23
COLLINS SHOT
FROM AMBUSH

Cork, Aug. % (By the Associated
Press) .-"ForgiYe them" were the
last words Of Michael Collins, COM
mander of the Free State army, as he
wts dying from the assassin's bullet
last night. Mr. Collins parts was
ambushed while visiting various mill.
tary'positions in South ireland.
London, Aug. % (By the Associat-
ed Press).-An Evening News dis
patch from Dublin says it is believed
that Collins was accompanied by sew
en- Free States staff officers, including
Major General Dalton, when be was
killed from ambush last night. Sew
eral soldiers, the dispatch said, hnvc
been killed or wounded during me at
tack on Collins party, Centra. News
dispatch says Dalton himself was
wounded in the fighting.
London, Aug. % (By the Associat-
er Press).-Michael Collins, head If
the Irish provisional government and
the Irish national army, was sho.
and killed from ambush at Bandon
County Cork, tonight few hours
after he had been given an ovation
by the people OF Ccr!; Git. VIZ, for
the first time say the Free ate
hero III the uniform Of commandcr-n
chief. Thus within ten days two o.
he most prominent figures in The
UcW h!Sh wage.nmcu. have been lo-
moIed By death. just ten days .gD
President Griffith of the dali eireAnn,
considered tho brains of the new ad
ministration, died III Dublin; tonigh:
Michael Collins, the Free States mil
Itary genius, was killed at the mo-
ment when the dissipation Of the IL
regular forces in the south was con-
,sidcred complete.
ScverQ. attacks have .bocr made
gains, the life Of Nitaacl' = ,Ilins,
acad of the prov, sional gov" ,'iment
md cclH,Nander' 2-chiel' If ii. Ir'sh
national army. The latest ! emp.
vas bombing outrage when |. S cay
vas ambushed last Friday al: tnoon
m the Dublin side OF SJi!lorgtr The
official communication ISSUED with
this attack did not indicate whather
DIR. Collins was in the machine at
she time. The driver was wounded
snd the car was wrecked, "a bomb and
.aore than IA score of shots being
2s l.e..ss.s
In Dublin on April II, wlile MI.
Collins was on his way homo after
having addressed meeting at Mass,
County Kildare, ne was attacked by
group Of men, some with rifles, who
ushed his car and opened fire.
The Collins party returned the ii-c
and one Of the assailants was caprur-
d. Collins was not injured.
! MIR. Collins, in addition 20 bHing
-omman dcr-in-chicf of the ratioral
II my, was finance minister in the dali
cireann cabinet. He was one cf those
who succeeded in obtaining tempo
,ary injunction in New YORK On Nor.
iay, restraining canon De Valera OF
his agents from Withdrawing fund
collected for the Irish Republican
caisc deposited in banks in New IorK
City.
ColiiY.s, always ar ardent Sim
c:ner, vas among those leaders
"hiie holding TO tire fundamentals Of
tradition for the frs lcm Of Ireland,
sill were willing t. effect 4 peac.
w;itn Great Britain. II became neccs-
;ary in "iew of the recent op>ratioCs
of the irregular iortc; for Collins to
,.:=umc active charge or the national
alry III the field ana for some tire
f<st ne mad abandoned the ciT:l pr.
c the government for the MILITARY
Americans recently arrl Ing IN
London from Dublin declarsI that
The assassination Of Collins y,,s fore
srrulc iic rcniovIt Of the sole remain-
ing on, standing. figure in NJ. PROV
sirnal government a"d il was sad
to be also III part q nIcaSu.r y; rr
ilisal against the shooting "f llarr,
J. Boland, the close associate nf
Eamon De Valera, by Free State 50!
diCrs
Agitation had been going on for a
considerable time, and the walls oil
Trinity college and other pubic build
ings bore the inscription, Harry Bo-
land murdered" Pc GERS on tele.
graph poles insisted that Boland was
shot by Free Staters. when he was UNI
armed.
AS a measure of precaution, extra
guards were thrown around the ma
tional chief because the determine
ton of the radical elements to rid the
country of the strong man in the
Free State movement was an accepted
fact.
With Arthur Griffith, Collins was
considered one of the mainstays of
the provisional government since its
inception.