RAIDS IN IRELAND

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 287, 15 September 1933, Page 5

RAIDS IN IRELAND

BRITISH BEER UNDER BAN. A GOODS TRAIN HELD, UP. PLEDGE IMPOSED ON PUBLICANS (United Press Association —Copyright). (Received This Day," 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, September 14. Raiders held up a goods train at Dundalk, menacing the station staff with revolvers. They removed two barrels of beer, which they smashed up with hammers. The raiders intended to destroy British beer, but one barrel was Irish beer.

The Irish Republican Army, ignoring Mr de Valera's suggestion that the raids are merely playing into the hands of the British, is continuing a widespread campaign. After an orgy of bottle-smashingj the publican is forced to sign a pledge that he will not sell British beer.

THE LOCAL ELECTIONS.

UNITED PARTY CANDIDATES

(Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDpN,- September 14

The United Ireland Party will conr test the local elections on November 14. The party demand that the Government pay to the county councils £1,000,000 from ~ the. central fund, in order to relieve the payment of agricultural rates because the economic war with Britain has destroyed the farmers' incomes.

DE VALERA AND LABOUR.

A DEFINITE PARTNERSHIP

LONDON, September 14,

The "Daily Telegraph" says that Mr de Valera has negotiated a definite partnership with the Labour Party. Labour is willing to support Mr de Valera on condition that the following measures are adopted: Pensions for widows and orphans, an unemployment relief house-building scheme, and workman's compensation.

The only obstacle to the complete fusion of the Labour Party and the Fianna Fail is Mr Norton's insistence upon the setting up of an expert headquarters staff which would plan legislation for the Government.

Mr Sean Lemass (Minister of Industry) resents this, as it would swallow up his department. Thirty-seven thousand people in Dublin alono are being maintained by civic relief funds, representing one in eleven of the whole population of the city.