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Show LEVELING OF DUBLIN CASTLE i URGED ON ERIN Newspaper Declares Free State Should Destroy Former For-mer Home of Tyranny TRANSFER GOES ON Owen 0 'Duffy Demands Release of Men Seized By Constabulary LONDON, Jan 17. Detail? Incident to the transfer of authority In southern south-ern Ireland from the crown government govern-ment to the provisional administration established in Dublin were considered here today. Eamonn J. Duergan and Kevin O'HigglnSj delegates of the Irish I provisional government arrive In Eondon to confer with members of the i British cabinet relative to the invest-I invest-I ment of the new regime with governmental govern-mental responsibility The war offlco has -announeed that withdrawal of British forces in southern south-ern Ireland will begin Immediately and that th men would be moved as rapidly as conditions permit. WANTS CASTLE LEVELED The Morning Pout, a newspaper j which has steadfastly shown hostility Ito Irish home rule and has upheld ihe ! principle of Unionism, today printed the following dispatch from Its Dub-1 Dub-1 lln correspondent. "The provisional governmont will mako a great mistake If it does not level the Dublin castle to the ground. There is an evil spell upon it. Its spirit i of intolerant burcaucraey, the type of I politician that It harbored and the j more to destroy the Union than agitators agitat-ors und treason rnnncrs. When the exodus begins the f latnesses lat-nesses of Dublin castle will disgorge hlk'h salaried officials who have not i done a stroke of honest work in I years " The correspondent Intimated the officials against whom he was writing writ-ing were in collusion with "rebels" while drawing Balarloa und wearing titles received from the crown WFS MEN RELEASED. BELFAST, Jan. 17. (By the Asso-Iclatfcd Asso-Iclatfcd Press) Owen O'Duffy. Sinn , Keln liaison officer In Ulster said In an 'interview toda he had taken up with i the British authorities tho arrest Sun-jday Sun-jday by members of Royal Irish constabulary con-stabulary of ten occupants of an automobile auto-mobile on their way from Mi'ii.i'-li.m ; to Londonderry who were reported by jthe constables to have represented i themselves as Gaelic, football players but who wore Irish Republican army uniforms. O'Duffy declared that one of the men arrested was Divisional Comman-idant Comman-idant Hugan of the northern iUVJl lot tho Republican army, and the oth-I oth-I ers members of his staff Unless the men were immediately released O'Duffy announced he would tak' ai -tion. oo |