DE VALERA STILL OPPOSED TO TREATY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume L, Issue 7958, 10 April 1922, Page 3

DE VALERA STILL OPPOSED TO TREATY

REBELS INVADE SOUTHERN TOWN

fly Telegraph—rreas Association Cocyrisht *vstr»ltan anu [y.a Cthlf Aasooitioa Rec April 10, morning ' London, April 7 Mr de Valera speaking at Dun laoghaire, said the Irish people would always oppose the Treaty and if they were wise they would remove it by the roots. The Provisional Government would not be obeyed and would not function Three members of the secessionist section of the Republican Army forced the registrar, at the revolver point, to send a telegram to Judge " Fleming, of the County Court, as follows: Don’t come to the Mullingar sessions to morrow- You do so abyour peril. The Republicans will arrest you. ” Judge Fleming adjourned the Moate sessions the previous day as the result of intervention by three men whom the Regular Irish Republicans have since arrested. A large number of rebels, armed with rifles, revolvers, and machine guns invaded Middleton, County Cork, in motorcars. They entered the principal shops and ordered the employees into the streets.