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Show I MUTINEERS INTEND TO ATTACK v FREE STATE FORCES, IS RUMOR Hot Resistance Promised If De Valeria's Followers Get Beyond Control; Machine Guns Answer Snipers in Belfast I- March 7. (By tho Associate,! As-sociate,! Props. ) The detachment of iriFh Republican troops who Invaded Limerick lost Sunday and commandeered comman-deered the principal hotels, extended their sphere of occupation today by taking possession of the technical school. The situation early this afternoon Wfl! quiet, :t It hough BOmi tension was felt Monday nl.-rht With the town occupied by three distinct forces, gamely. British tmops which have not yet been evacuated, Free -tate forces and members of the Irish Republican army, the situation today was regarded regard-ed as full of possibilities. streets patromj d The British troops here are confined con-fined to their barrack?.. The Free State forces are occupying barracks and the police barracks. The streets today were being patrolled ly the Invaders In-vaders some of whom wore uniforms and all carried arms Persistent rumors that Free State forces had been dispatched from Dublin Dub-lin had not been verified up to this forenoon by the nrrlvnl of any such troops. It I? considered here that the policy of the provisional government will probably develop an effort to ad-Just ad-Just the situation by negotiations before be-fore other meisures are taken, in MORS BROAD DUBLIN'. March . (By The Associated As-sociated Press) Reports that Republican Repub-lican mutineers have given Free State forces 48 hours notice to surrender Limerick police barracks today intensified inten-sified th situation in Limerick and caused genuine anxiety to Free Staters Stat-ers These rumors lacked substantiation substantia-tion but it was agreed that Free Staters Stat-ers would stubbornly resist deposition and in event of an attack the barracks would be vigorously defended. No breach of peace, however, had been reported early today Lack of authentic au-thentic news Intensified seriousness of the real situation. WARNS rERRORISTS. Th Freeman's Journal under the headline, 'A dangerous game," declared de-clared "plans are being made to carry on political propaganda and develop mutinous spirit In Certain sections of Ireland" ' Some adherents of specials No 2." M It added. "havr m;dr up their minds that they cannot prevent by agreement establishment of the Irish Free State and it looks as if they were about to try to see what can be done by turmoil. tur-moil. Incidents at Clonmel and Limerick Lim-erick already have shown how far fh mutineers ar' prepared to go, but the Irish people will never submit to acts of terrorism. Responsibility clearly rests on Eamonn de Valera If he allows al-lows then under protection of his name and Influence to turn an appeal to honest Judgment of the Irish democa- cv into a fratricidal conflict " FORCES m RKNGTHENBD. Free State forces grow stronger dally A continuous stream of men la passing through Dublin After intensive inten-sive training they are sent to varloui barracks or kept for guard duty around public buildings In the capital. capi-tal. trlsh Republican army headquarters here Is understood to be dealing energetically en-ergetically with the mutinous action of the Republican troops at Limerick. Ten companies of Irish Republican army troopa, uniformed and carrying rifles, boarded trains at Dublin Monday. Mon-day. Their destination was not revealed, re-vealed, but Is believed to be Limerick. Other troops, It was said, would leave today. i ' INSTITUTION DRAFTED. The first draft of the Irish constitution, consti-tution, which ha1 been completed bv i a committee of which Darrell Flgg is I acting chairman, was submitted to-Iday to-Iday to the provisional government for changes that nre deemed necessary The draft does not bind its people forever for-ever to the Irish Free State and contains con-tains nothing forbiddfng them from complete independence, aceirdlng to . reliable SOUrCl I The constitution includes northeast 'Ulster in the Free State. The six conn-itles conn-itles would retain the powers they now possess, having their own bgy-llaturo, bgy-llaturo, functioning Mmllnrly to the I legislatures of the Canadian provinces jor the states in the United States, with certain restrictions. Any act passed bv the Flster legislature", If contested, would eventually come before the supreme su-preme court for all Ireland on the jqucstion of its consonance with the constitution. (.1 NFIRE IN 11 l I vs'i BELFAST. March 7. (By The Associated As-sociated Press). Gunmen were active In the early morning hour9 today Increasing In-creasing tension in this city in spite 'of efforts by police and soldiers. A nil n was shot dead on Perry Hiil und !John Roddy, a news dealer, had part iof his right arm shot off. i A carefully planned, but futile at-. at-. tempt was made to destroy by fire a ;furnltur making plant in Llberray street close to Royal avenue. Today's disturbances were chiefly limited to the Carrlck hill Sinn Fein district, where gunmen hidden behind chimneys made potshots at workers i .- to the shipyards. This brought dice from barracks nearby with ma-i ma-i guns and rifles who did battle ith the Snipers. No casualties re-j Milted so far as is known. During the night firing rarely ceos- ed In Stanhope street area, adjacent t" Carrlck bill. The military surrounded! a wide district and overwhelmed it with machine gun fire. The gunmen : rapidly took cover and casualties therefore were light. 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