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Show FREE STATERS DISPERSE FOE Irregulars Set Fire to Field ; Headquarters and Retreat Re-treat Hastily LONDON, July 18 The most out-Maii.llng out-Maii.llng in i s of the Irlth national army forces In their drive south and w:t is reported Irom ploospnel where the Irregulars net the bnrraek.s on fire and retreated hastily without awaiting await-ing the arrival of the regular troops, says a Centrul News dispatch from Publlfl today The town was the principal prin-cipal stronghold of tho irregulars In the SOUth and their field general headquarters head-quarters . ARMY PIANS II ID DION DUBLIN July If. B thf Associated Associ-ated Press) Talk in Dublin today continued to center around approaching approach-ing operations on n big scale against the Republican Irregulars but tho Free State commanders no far have successfully success-fully hidden their plans. Meanwhile the national army troops continue lo reitp scattered succossos. Including the prisoners captured by Free State troops during tho rocent fighting In Dublin, the nationals now hold approximately gfJOjO prisoner DEATH THREATEN ED An n'nusuhl order issued by one of the leaders of the irregulars, .it wo reported today from Kilkcn,i5 was! found in tho possession of a prisoner when he wan captured b Free Stater. Tho document, It was said, instructs t the recipient to "commandeer labor, j work day and night and make all roads ImaasablS. The man who dts-ohOya dts-ohOya must reaelve the extreme penalty. pen-alty. You ate at liberty to Inflict the same on anybody who disobeys your orders." |