FREE STATE FINANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 78, 2 April 1923, Page 5

FREE STATE FINANCE.

DEFICIT OF £20-000-000. COST OF THE REBELLION. ,-By Cab!..-. I To* As-,,, m.ton.--Copyright.) • i:.- .i\.-,l ii an .-, ,„ -. LONDON. April 1. Tiie Free -late Hudgci estimate? that t.'ir delict "i : l be twenty iiiillions. The .•\pciiditiire itn-liide- -bin.Tiio.iioi) ~„ th e army an I '-'I l.'Mn.nou mi compensations ..wing lo rebel operations.-A. and \.Z. A SURPLUS FOR ULSTER. TARIFF WALL ERECTED. AMAZING SCENES ON BORDER. " !; I ve-i l-.:;o p.m., LONDON. April I. I l-tcr's fi i—l tinancial year re.-ulied in :> -urpnis ~.-' l:i"./hhi. pft'er ,„nt ril.itt ing L'li/Mii.u-.Ki i„ i|, r Imperial Fxche-nier. The inaiijuratioii of the l-'rc ■• >t„te tariff ciiu-ed amazing scenes on the Ll-t-r border. Free -t-,te residents u-ing all bind- of vehicle,, t,, ru-li pr,,\ ision.- acres- I he border in order to evade Custom- duties. Thousand- of householders f.-i-timulatcl \.,.-i <|uanttties of •z '.-. suflicient f.-r -i\ months. Hun. drc,l- cf mot,,,- ~.,,•- mc-c „l-o sen! across. The ',>,-<• -tat*- mil horit ie*. with a view t,, stoppins Miiugaling. have placed guards ~,i t he front ice. , v. and N.Z. ; able., IMPARTIAL THIRD PARTY. ROBBING BOTH SIDES. LONDON. Apvil 1. Kilty-three tombstones m the Belfast cemetery were defaced nnd smnshe.!. apparently by a gang armed with -led-rrhiimmcrs and crowbars, Reprisals an* ihreatened. \ ruling gang, known a- the third part*., belonging t., neither side, ha-a*p.--it,-.[ i„ Ireland, robbing all c!asse« indi-criinir.ntelv. Moth I'rcr* Mat,- troops and Republicans n-c watching the movements of the-e robbers.- , Renter., LIGHTS C LONDON. PLOT TO EXTINGUISH THEM. EXILES OF ERIN. LONDON. March -Jo. A pint to destroy the metropolitan electrical and gas works having been discovered by Scotland Yard, special guards have been ported by the authorities to prevent sabotage intended to plunge London in darkness. The plot was hatched, according to Scotlnnd Yard, by Irish extremists, and was discovered during the roundup ot March 11. when many suspects were deported to Ireland. The authorities learn* that the danger is still great, and in consequence strangers are admitted to the electrical pla-its and gasworks only after a stringent examination. A captured letter addressed to n rebel leader known as *'o.(b in Britain." and signed "Scan Moylam." ha- been published by the Free State. It indicates that dissensions cxi<t amongst the Republicans in the l'nited States. Moylam reports that -money i- com ing hi well, and 'Larry' Oinncll is there He is a d d nuisance. He ha; credentials informing all and sundry that he is the Irish envoy in command of all the troops in the U.S.A. "He has appointed a fellow named O'Brien as Consul-*'eneral. and he ha> proclaimed himself in control of tin money. "Larry wanted 10.000 dollars to nn the Legation, but he won't get the Cash." In Cork Ben McCarthy, a lad of 10 was taken from hi- Led by four nrmer men at *1 a.m. on Saturday, and latel was found -hot dead. The b"dv was labelled. "Convictet spy. Shot as a reprisal for comrade, who were executed during the week." Rebels failed in an attack on Vougba bridge, but carried out raids on cotintri post-offices, and burned down ntim-ier-of houses. Opening tlie Londonderry Assizes. Mr .Tustice Wilson announced a mark.-, diminution in crime i> 'he county, wlucl wa- now, he siibi. normal. The greates improvement was shown in the relation between the Six Counties and the ad joining count ie- along the border, especi ally in Doneeal. where tlie "Free StHti had established it- authority. Th people were now able to cross and re cm" without their former fear an ■trepidation.— fA. and NX Cable.",