HEAVY POLLING

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 104, 26 January 1933, Page 9

HEAVY POLLING

Election in Free State UNEXPECTED PEACE Disorders Few in Number SOME INTIMIDATION (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) London, Jan. 21. There was a steady stream of Free State voters all day long, but there were few disorders. The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr. Byrne, who is a small man, was the hero of a bout of fisticuffs in Dublin, when an aggressive de Valeraite struck him while he was touring the polling booths. Mr. Byrne retaliated and knocked his assailant down. Mr. E. de Valera spent polling day in his constituency—Clare. Mr. W. T. Cosgrave returned to Dublin from Cork, escorted by members of the Free State Army in an armoured car. There was some intimidation of Cosgraveites in the country districts: also a considerable number of impersonations of voters, while there were occasional attempts to put Cosgraveite motor-cars out of action by spreading nails on the roads, but generally a day of heavy polling concluded with tinpeacefulness. EXCLUSION ORDER BROKEN Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington London, Jan. 24. Mrs. Sheehy Skpffington, who was arrested near Newry, when about to attend a meeting; was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment for entering Armagh in contravention of an exclusion order. She said she would be showing herself ashamed of the Irish race and her murdered husband if she admitted she was an alien in her own country. Partition would yet be as dead as Queen Anne.