DAIL EIREANN

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 135, 3 March 1922, Page 5

DAIL EIREANN

QUESTIONS FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES HARASSING PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT BY 'I'ELEGBAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. London, March 1. At a meeting of tho Dail Eircann, Mr. Griffith said that some questions on the order paper were obviously put down for the purpose of propaganda and supplying ammunition to English opponents. An attempt was being made by opponents of the Provisional Government to use the Dail as a means of harassing it. The Dail Eireann estimates for the half-year at June, 1922, total £203,121, including £84,000 for defence. Ministers will receive £5OO per annum. Mr. Collins, speaking at the Dail Eireann, characterised as an infamous untruth the statement published in America that Mr. de Valera had drawn from tho bank twenty thousand dollars of Sinn Fein money. Mr. Collins states that the Free State Government will be able to provide from £50,000 to £lOO,OOO immediately, and £250,000 later for reconstruction work in Cork. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. STORES AND MUNITIONS HANDED OVER PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT’S FORCES. (Rc. March 3, 1 a.m.) London, March 1. In the House of Commons Viscount Curzon affirmed that the agents of the Irish Provisional Government, to which the British Government was handing over stores, belonged to tho Irish Republican Army. Mr. Churchill replied that ho assumed the personnel of the forces which tho Provisional Government was creating were largely drawn from the Republican Army. It was impossible for the Government to refuse to have dealings with such persons, but all such dealings would be with accredited agents of the Provisional Government. Replying to General Sir J. H. Davidson, Mr. Churchill admitted that over thirty thousand rounds of ammunition and a large quantity of stores had been stolon at Clonmel, but by a portion of the Republican Army, which was openly defiant ’towards the Provisional Government. He refused to give an undertaking, that no furtheir stores and ammunition would be handed over to the Provisional Government. Ho was certain a very limited quantity of the arms handed over to the Provisional Government had been used to equip their forces, and were in the hands of persons obeying tho orders of that Government.— Reuter.