IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY RECRUITING

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10829, 30 March 1932, Page 3

IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY RECRUITING

De Valera Completes Draft of Reply. COSGRAVE’S HOME GUARDED. London. March 28. Despatches from Dublin state (hat Mr de Valera has completed the draft of his reply to Britain in regard to the oath of allegiance and the land annuities. He will submit it to his Cabinet to-morrow. It is believed that the reply sets out at length the argument that the oath contained in the Constitution has nothing to do with the treaty. The Note probably will roach Downing Street on Thursday. It is understood that the papers will not lie issued to the press until the whole ot the corcspondonce has been completed.

The Dublin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says the Republicans at present hold the stage in Ireland. They are straining every nerve to work up anti-British feeling’in readiness for a, diplomatic deadlock. The Irish Republican Army, taking advantage of the present wave of Republicanism to-day began a great campaign to attract recruits. Its emissaries approached young unemployed men in the streets and many of these are sure to be sworn in within the next two or three weeks. The cessation of emigration to America is helping the revolutionaries. Mr W. T. Cosgrave, Leader of the Opposition and all his party organisations intend to maintain silence until the Bail reassembles three weeks hence. Mr Cosgra.ve’s home is continually guarded by detectives and Civic Guards.