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Show II FREE STATERS I PREVENT Capture ISO Attackers Larg-e Quantity of Anns ff'J '' ' DUBLIX. Aug. 7 "By the Asso- . (to dated Press) Republican forces from In the southern Imttle zone attempted a W roup in the Dublin area Saturday :y night, bat were frustrated by the Free B state troops, according to an offlca. I; rpmrniniqui- Issued from army head- U quarters today. The Irregulars ti ivei- U . d by boat from Cork to Liverpool and if then there intended 10 Isolate tin- cits 1 by destroying bridges, roads, railways . I.ij ;md other means n communication. . The FYeo State ror i a captured IgV , ot the Httackcrs and a large quantity 1 ti L ,,f arms and other wc.r maXOrialft jl Th' Irregulars wfcr operating in i parties of from half a dozen- to so at f, iarious points in both the horthern !' mid southern suburbs. Tb materials '! raptured by the nationals Include six Bf' ..jtomobites which the Erulara 1 1 ommandt ered ani ;i number of land l mines and grenades, together with '; Iflea revolvers, engineering equlp- ment nnd m unit Ions : i:mi NT M i I !SSFl I HHH ij The national army troops are siic- H ccsstully pushing their campaign In H southwestern Ireland both from the 1 Limerick sector and from the region 1 1 of Tralec where 'hoy landed last week in a turning movement, according to reports from the lighting front. 1 1 The flanking parties from the j ;ire pushing Inland, and the fall of H Listowell Saturd:.. was a result. The irregulars retreated thence In a south-1 south-1 easterly direction to Abbey Keale 1 i ounty Limerick Before lealig L4s- t Dwell they burned the barracks. the work house and the court house. At Limerick the fall of Klltnallock I I ml several other places held by the Irregulars seems to put them to rout In both east and west Limerick. Adure 1 was taken aftr two shots had hit the headquarters of th IrroguKrs In I a local hotel. The Free State troops had one killed nnd three wounded. After further fighting on Sunday the nationals still advancing, took Rath-! keale. Broadford Askeaton nnd BUlin-j |