EAST CLARE ELECTION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3136, 14 July 1917, Page 7

EAST CLARE ELECTION

SINN FEINERS EXCELLENTLY ORGANISED RESULT CAUSES ALARM London, July 12. The Sinn l'einers' campaign "was excellently organised. Mr. Devalera had plenty of motor-cars, speakers, and canvassers. A narge number of Roman Catholic priests assisted him, and he had much money from America, believed to havo come from a Gormn source. Pessimists amoug the Kedmondites say the. election shows that no Nationalist seat is now 6afe outside- the city of Dublin. Recent elections prove- that a large number of Hie youngor Irishmen »liavo revolted against the Nationalist Party machine.

'l'ho feature of the present situation which is most alarming the Unionists is, the apparent breakdown of the discinlino of the Roman Catholic Church. Many teachers in tho National schools arc propagating revolutionary doctrines without any discouragement from (he priests.' The bishops, in.recent instructions to the clergy, have been completely, ignored.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. EXTRAORDINARY OUTBURST OF ENTHUSIASM. (Rue. July 13, 7.10 p.m.) London, July 12. There was an extraordinary outburst of enthusiasm in the Midlands and West of Ireland. ~ Huge bonfires Mazed from hill. to hill throughout the night. Youths paraded every town and village, singing patriotic songs. Tho troops were confined to tho barracks in tho various garrison towns.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.