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Show Girls in Bed Given Coat of Green Paint i Armed and Masked Men Mistreai Irish Lassies Accused Ac-cused of Being Friendly to Republican Repub-lican ( 'ause BELFAST, Sept. 14 South Irish advices today assert that the homes of six young women of Kjllamey, known to be in sympathy with the Republicans, were visited by armed and masked men v. ho found the young women in their bed3 and painted their bodies green. BELFAST, Sept. u. (By The A3-sociated A3-sociated Press.) Balllna. In northern north-ern county .Mayo, has been recapture I by the Republicans, who swoop 1 down upon the town several liun-dred liun-dred strong and captured the garrison garri-son of gov ernment troops. One account from Balllna says thi majority of the national garrison were In the cathedral at the time ,,r the attack, attending a requiem mass for, a comrade recently killed, while most of the others were In bed. having! spent most of t he preceding night on, guard ln anticipation of the assault j The soldiers who were actual. y armed and ln a position to ftfht Were hopelessly outnumbered Two civil-j Inns, a girl and a man. are said to; hav heen shot dead, an.l a number) of soldiers and civilians wounded . When the Republicans left they took' with them two civilians, prominent! treaty supporters. The I'lster government, it was announced an-nounced today has discovered a plot, to blow up or scuttle the steam r Argenta, on which 300 sinn felners are Interned at Larne Lough, countv Antrim. Reports from Dublin today tell of heavy fighting heard over a wide! area shortly after midnight, reach-J Ing a climax between 1J:30 and 1 o'clock. It appeared as if several 1 posts were being attacked. It was I said the telepiione exchange In I Crown Allev was under attack for I about L'O minutes, machine guns being used, while another attack was matte on the Eour Courts hotel, where national na-tional army troops are stationed. Loud reverberations were heard nlong the quays and In SSckvllfe street and armored cars were hurried to the scene. By 2 o'clock, however, unlet again prevailed Advices from Cork state that Timet), Tim-et), v k nneflck, a prominent Repub-llcan Repub-llcan Of that city was dragged from a lorry by an armed band while he was returning from Macroom and that later he wjS found shot dad. Prior to the landing of national army men nt Court Macsherry. county coun-ty t.ork, there was a deadly engagement engage-ment with a large Republican force The Republicans used machine guns with which they poured a heavy fire In'.o the nationals boat, which nevertheless never-theless put to shore. The Repub'lcan casualties, the advices state, were hc.iw. three being killed and 10 wounded. The nationals say only one of their men was wounded. Tippcrary advices state that Thomas Brennan. of Sherlow. county (Continued on Page Two.) BODIES OF GIRLS JITE1 GREEN New Outbreak of Warfare Reported Raging in Ireland (Continued from Page One.) Tippcrary. was taken from his home and shot dead, a label attached to the body being Inscribed "convicted spy " It is estimated that 16 persons have been killed In south and west Ireland Ire-land In the past few days. in vai i:ka comments LONDON. Sept H Eamonn de Viiera Wednesday night lesuod a statement In comment upon Richard Mulcahy'a speech in the southern Irish parliament on Tuesday, says an Exchange telegraph dispatch from Dublin In which he again declared that the treaty party had broken Its pact with his party at the bidding of Prime Minister Lloyd George and Colonial Secretary Churchill. After this breach of faith, he said, tho Republicans Re-publicans were unable to avert the terrible state of things now obtaining. obtain-ing. "The treaty party want to win a cheap military glory." he added, "and i then present a fait accompli to those I Who differ with them. I stand by every word I spoke at the election campaign." |