REBEL PROPAGANDISTS

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 72, 24 March 1923, Page 7

REBEL PROPAGANDISTS

PARTY FOR AUSTRALIA. MR. COSGRAVE'S WARNING. RULE OF THE TORCH. I (By Cntilp. l're«s Afwociation.—Copyright.i LONDON. March I*. I The President of the Kxecutive of the | Irish Free State. Mr. \V T. CieSgraVrt. interviewed on behalf of the Australian nnd New Zealand Tress Association, said I the Republican propagandists had failed ho obtain support in America, where tbe 1 truth had been too -trong. and knowledge lof their deeds enable.! the people to ttllw j the true measure of their line word.s. : The rebels were now turning to Australia, which was more distant and so afforded them an opportunity of keeping ahc-iid of exposWVe. ' -Australians.' , said Mr. Cnsgravc. '"will ],e,ir from ex-Father O'Flannghan jam! O'Keltv. nnist, eloquent, speeenes ' nbout liberty and nationality. There- ! fore it is we'll to tell them immediately :in what form ideas are put in Ireland by those who set them forth. While. I l)e Valeri,. the nomiinil leader, declares I that if Kiißlami"* threat uf war were removed he would not. oppose the i(neUon of tlie peo)ile. Mary MacSwiney openly denies the right 01 the people to j make any decision displeasing to her. J declaring that if they are so bold they jv.ill have to submit to duress. I "That duress has been nnpHed in tbe , most ferocious manner possible. Train* J have been wrecked regrardles,; of danger Ito passengers, houses have been burn! or J blown up, viliiip-H blown up and wrecked. I civilians, in Ballyconnel, murdered. "V. us : n Athh.ne and Youglinl, ha<l the I water supply en) ofT: public bnildinH« j have been destroyed; nn ntiempt. was made t<. blow "un :. cinematograph j theatre when full of people: coldblooded murders have been committed, of which the latest are those of a boy lof lt> and an unarmed doctor. :i Quaker. i "What the irregulars mean hv liberty jis anarchy: to quote their words, the J 'rule of the torch. - What they mean b\ nationality is incomprehensible to fliTi v sai)t* 'Vtoin?. It smoiiml I>i* htirne 111 mind that the sufTci-ers of these outrages are plain people, see their homes destroyed, th.-ir live* daily imperilled, the prosperity of i lie country wrecked, ami who eventually will have to pay for ' ■■Australians who have used freedom I and democracy for generat ions, will knowhow t" value (lie words of men who .-pen., for perpetrator* of these awful deed', and they will sympathise with the Iri-h people, who. in the face of J such deeds, stand firm and declare that their will mii-t prevail."—< A.«»"' NZj