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Show TROOPS STOP j COiilS; ONE Stormy Scenes Follow Attempt At-tempt of Free State Leader Lead-er to Speak WOMAN IS WOUNDED Hundreds of Soldiers Swear Allegiance to Irish Republic DUBLIN. April 3. (By the Associ- ! atod Press.) Official figures given I out todav show that 32C0 men left , the five Dublin battalions of the Irish , republican army yesterday afternoon. 1 j marching to Smiihfle'.d. where they ' I took an oath of allegiance to the re-' re-' puhllc freeing themselves front any further responsibility to the Dalll I Elreann. rini.rmrN wm ndfd j BEL1WST. April .1 --John Malon. I ; answering d knock at the door of his : Ih&me n Skegoniel Ave. last night, was confronted by a gan,r "f men ! J who as! ed if hl- son was In the house . j I'pon reply ing in the negative.. Mnlon .Was shot dead. A bomb thrown Into la bedroom in the house of John Simp-; ! son In Irllngton street, wounded two i hlldren aged 8 and fi. I TEMENT LIKELY : MULLING AR, Cbunt 'est M.ith, .Ireland. Anrll 1. An Incident from i ' which sensational developments are expected hrr occurred today when I ICO Free Str.'e trufuis mat-, hed I ' the gates of the barracks occupied I by Irsh republican nrmy adherents- of Etamonn de Valera and were it . fused admission. STORMY SCENES. DUBLIN, April (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press ) The meeting addressed address-ed by Michael Collins at Caslle Bar. County Mayo, last night was stopped l.-. members of the Fourth" Western division of the Irish Republican army atter stormy scenes in which a wo-; wo-; man was wounded by a bullet, ac-i ac-i cording i" .counts reaching Dublin ' this morning. The chief of the provisional gov-j gov-j eminent and hi.; party returned to their hotel, and the officer who had . proclaimed the meeting a! an end followed declaring that none would be allowed to leave until Mr. Folllns and his friends had surrendered their ' arms. The accounts received here Jo not state whether the Collins party was .(lis lined, merely saying that 'AOniS ! people who left the hotel were . searched." The telefrraoh wires around Castle I Bar were cut and when the newspa-' newspa-' per correspondents there boarded i train for AthlObe ihe were ordered by two officers to go to the bar-! bar-! racks I The newspaper men were convoyed convoy-ed to the barracks in automobiles where they found A. McCaba ii member mem-ber of the Ball ESireann, with Commandant Com-mandant Kllroy and his staff The commandant stated thot Mr. McCabe had admitted he was the first to draw a revolver at the meetina, Mr McCabe then, in Hip presence of the correspondents, said he- believed he was the first to draw, the dispatches said. A Dublin man. Charles Brvn a member of th Collins party, was arrested ar-rested and accused of the shooting Mr. Collins subsequently told the rep resentntives of the fish Independent, Dublin newspaper, that he had visited vis-ited Mr. Brync In the barracks and found him in ii cell with ohl; plank for a bed and mi bending, lie said he had asked Commandant Kllroy to parole Mr Brync Mr Collins. to be responsible, but that h" request was refused Mrs Fogarty. proprietress of the Commercial Hotel, Castle Bar. was wounded in the -houl.br. prc.umablv by the bullet fired at the meeting. The correspondent of the London Evening News says all the roads to Castle Bar were blocked by trees and that automobiles moving toward the town were stopped by armed m.-n. who oven ripped up the railway track to prevent Jh arrival of the spi-ci.ii trains from the surrounding towns. The meeting was con.i. quent h delawd until un-til 7 p m. 20Q0 IN i;nVI The crowd numbered 'immi persons anlong them many hostile to Collins Collins was frequently Interrupted and lin n an attempt was made to rush in lorries, which supported his platform says the account, and a supporter of Collins drew a revolver 'thei produced pro-duced revolvers also, upon which the crowd stampeded, women fainting and several persons wen- I ram pled down A young man was pursued Into a side street and a number of shots were fired At this point adds iiu- correspondent, correspond-ent, an officer Jumped upon the platform plat-form and declared the meeting ad Journed In the Interest of peace. |