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Show REBELS' HANDS Nationals Fail to Penetrate Town; DeValera Fighting LON'HOX. July 29. No national army troops tiave, us yet. penetrated the town of Limerick which for weeks ' has been completely controlled by the , irregulars, says an Exchange Telegraph Tele-graph dispatch from Nenagn today. The people of Limerick and in the 'immediate vicinity un reported In a terrible plight without coal or rus and with food supplies running so short that starvation Is threatening. Alt : railway and wire communications are cut off und the only way to reach Dublin Dub-lin Is by boat to Liverpool and back 1'V the same means to Dublin. Peyond the fact that tho extensive 'military barracks hae beep burned by the Irregulars and pounds tnken from the banks; adds the message, mes-sage, little Is known of what Is occurring oc-curring in Limerick DE M l It UOKN IJY VR DUBLIN. July 29. (By the Associated Associ-ated Press) Travelers in Dublin to-,day to-,day who said they saw Eamonn de i Valcra at Clonmel early this week de-I de-I dared ho was carrying a rifle and that ho looked worn and hnggard- Today'e national army communique 'announces that Free state troops cap-lured cap-lured the village of Pruree, two miles j f rom Kllmallor k Friday nlht with the I Insurgent occupants of the village and their arms anil ammunition. oo |