DAIL DISSOLVED BY PROCLAMATION

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 207, 30 May 1938, Page 9

DAIL DISSOLVED BY PROCLAMATION

General Election To Be Held On June 17

LABOUR SHACKLES IRK DE VALERA

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.

(Received May 29, 6.30 p.m.)

London, May 28.

The Dail Eirann has been dissolved by proclamation and a general election ordered for, June 17. The proclamation dissolving the Dail Eirann stated that the Government, with a precarious majority, was com sistently at the mercy of a group of combinations supporting sectional interests and could not do -the nation’s work as it should be done.

The new elections have startled the Free State, which expected that the Government would await the result of the Monaghan by-election on June 7 before fixing the date for the general election. Monaghan would have been a straight-out fight, between Fianna Fail (Government) and Fine Gael. Nomination day was to-day, but the by-election is now cancelled, and Dr. Hyde’s installation as President, planned for June 1, is postponed to an unfixed date not later than June 22. Eight Ministers have cancelled arrangements to address meetings tomorrow.

Apparently the move is a sequel to Mr. de Valera’s displeasure at the defeat of his Government by one vote on May 25 on a private motion owing to the" absence of 10 Government supporters. He is anxious to throw off the shackles of the Labour Party, on which he has had to depend since the election last July.

It is expected that the recent London agreement will be Mr. de Valera’s main plank. / -.— — The final figures in the Free State general election last July gave Mr. de Valera’s party 69 seats, Mr. Cosgrove’s party 48, Labour 13, and Independents 8. Stalemate was overcome by Labour giving its support to Mr. de Valera. '