GOVERNMENT BEATEN
Reverse Division In Dail
Eireann.
TEST OF CONFIDENCE NEXT.
(Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON", November 17. The Irish Free State Government was defeated in the Dail by 6C votes to (54, on a motion, which was moved by Capt a i n Redmond, | leader of the National League party. Ho proposed the setting-up of a Commission of inquiry into the circumstances of the ex-service men in the Free State. The President,
Mr. Cosgrave, said
he would accept a motion of no-confidence with respect to the division, and would give time for its discussion to-day or on Friday. The defeat of the Cosgrave partv is not likely to result in a crisis. Captain Redmond declines to regard the motion as a party one, or to table a no-confi-dence motion.
Mr. Cosgrave in the Dail Eireann stated that the Government could consider the motion in a few da^a.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 273, 18 November 1927, Page 7
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