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Show IRISH RAIDERS I SEIZE WEAPONS I BELFAST, Jan. IS. The police barracks bar-racks at Charlestoxvn. County Mao. were raided by 50 armed men todax, who escaped with a considerable quan- ; lity of arms and ammunition. One Biirgeant xvas wounded during the raid. Ill M)S AIOIY T :i0 DUBLIN, Jan. 18. (By the Asso-elated Asso-elated Press-) The appointment of Owen 1 t'uffy as chief of staff of the Irish Republican army xxas announced tod ly. He succeeds Richard Mulcahy, the present minister of defense. O'lmffv, who Is So years old, has been 1 ."-inn Fein liaison officer in northern Ireland since the truce. DIFFlCt'LiT TIME AHEAD I I.. 'Ni-ii.V. J.wi 1- 1 "nr. si prevail! H in southern Ireland, says the Dublin correspondoW of tho London Times. H xvho intimates that folloxvers ot biamonn 1 'e Valera may be engaged Id 1 btlmulatlng disturbances. "A spirit of extreme republicanism," the correspondent declared, "still flames In the south, xvhere large bod-les bod-les uf armed men refuse to accept the bctxveen Ireland and Great Britain. There has been an epidemic . ii.ery .1 u.J other crimes of violence in Dublin ltui In rural districts, which demands strong measures from the , government. Th.- whole country will heartily suopont the. provisional Irish .. i ninent In any measures taken to SgtabllSb order, but the next fexv weeks 1 srhile Ensllsh forces are being xvlth- drawn may be a dlffictilt time in the I Island." gSaaV 00 |