San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-13
Irregular Army Chief
Charges Effort to Un-
dermine Their Morale.
SAYS VICTORY Is NEAR
Free State General Holds
Up Executions Until
Amnesty Expires.
BY WILLIAM II. BRAYDEN.
Special Gable to The San Antonio Light
and tho Chicago Daily News.

Copyright 1923.
Dublin, Feb. 1"-There will be no
executions in Ireland this week.
Many death sentences have been
passed, but they have been suspended
by General Mulcahy to await. the
result of the governments offer of
amnesty expiring next Sunday.
1t is not expected that the amnesty
will dissolve all the irregular forces,
but it is hoped that it will thin them
out considerably.
Liam Lynch, chief of staff of the
opposition army, besides rejecting the
appeal for surrender sent to him from
prison by his next in command while
under sentence of death, has issued
definite manifesto TO his army de-
claring victory TO be within grasp and
charging the government with at
tempting TO undermine Republican
discipline by breaking individual Off
GERS and generally with bad faith,
broken promises and deceit"
Appeal Fails Of Object.
The surrender appeal has thus en-
Filtered the situation and made hope
less all attempts at negotiated
peace.
Efforts from inside prisons TO in
fluence the Republican leaders towards
peace are growing and men detained
in Clonmcl have followed those from
Limerick in asking for release on
parole of delegates for that purpose.
While the cabinet is united in policy,
~,
per between its two wings. General
Mulcahy's prOnOuncments aim at the
reconciliation of old comrades and TO
assure them of an enthusiastic well
come if they abandon their present
campaign, while Kelvin O'Higgins
sounds bitter notes in denunciation of
DeNalera.
Inside the Free State army. Gen
eral Mulcahy's attitude is reflected
by the officers and carried TO eX-
tremes by the rank and file whose
determination with the irrcgulars has
provoked the censure of the high COM
mand. General Mulcahy attributes
the most violent of the irregular
cOups 10 the feeling among his men
that their opponents were less black
than they were painted. There have
been some sporadic surrenders of
arms in response to the amnesty proc
lamation, but these are more than bal
anced by the intensification of the
burning campaign, which during the
weekend destroyed some great cOun-
try mansions said TO be worth millions
of dollars.
Fire Upon ChurchgOers.
The irregulars also wrecked large
Dublin printing office employed on
government work, the building being
blow to pieces by bomb. The pro-
prietor, Patrick Mahon. a noted Sim
Feiner, issued newspapers for Arthur
Griffith during the fight against the
British and had frequent experiences
of raids by the Black and Tans. On
Sunday, irregulars with machine
guns fired on congregation leav-
ing mass at Clonmel. They missed
the soldiers who formed part of the
congregation, but hit some innocent
worshipcrs. They also ambushed a
Free State patrol in Kerry and killed
its officer.
Cardinal LoQue denounccs the yiO-
lence of the irregulars as leaving
in the shade the most outrageous ex-
cesses of the Black and Tans," and
the bishops generally describe the
situation las changed for the worse. -