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Show CLASH SEEMS mm m EMERALD ISLE Situation in Dublin and on Ulster Frontier Is Tense DUBLIN April 9 (By the international inter-national News Scr Ice i A clash appears ap-pears to be imminent between Irish Free ?tate troops and mutinous mem-' mem-' bera of the Irish republican army. The situation here, as well a.s on the Ulster frontier was very tenso tonight. The Dublin was lntensfied by a sudden sud-den attack last night upon headquarters headquar-ters of the Irish Free State troops From all sections comes news that predicts an ultimate encounter between be-tween the rival forces unless the attitude at-titude of all combatants experiences a change. Republicans ousted Free State troops from the Raihfarnham bar-! racks, taking over the cantonmsnta for themselves. The Free Staters of-J fered no resistance. Irish republican army mutineers at Mulllngar have closed all courts and: threaten the Judges with arrest if the attempt to try cases Captain Cox. of the Irish rcpubli-. can army, was killed while defending B branch of the l ister Bank at Castle Rea. Marauders also robbed the Iandesboro bank. The republicans, in attempting to I get before the world their case against the Irish Free State, have lifted the censorship regulations that had been Imposed upon American and British coi 1 espondents. |