IRELAND

Evening Star, Issue 18139, 1 December 1922, Page 5

IRELAND

THE REBEL PLOT. Prew Association—By Telegraph—Copyright* LONDON, November 29. Tho ‘ Daily Chronicle’s ’ Dublin correipondant states that a plot to kidnap members of Bail Eireami who acknowledge tho Free State by taking seats Las been di#coverod, the object being to suppress tho Bail so that there will be no legislature to terminate the Provisional Government and to usher in the Free State. The Government was apprised of the plan through a captured document which was communicated to the deputies. The plan provided for a Republican movement from the/ country to reinforce tho rebels in Dublin. This concentration has actually been progressing. Tho accept tho danger philosophically, pointing out that only a dozen members aro able to attend the new Bail after December 6. They can fix a. new quorum. Professor M'Neill, in the Bail, referring to the executions, said that all present were under sentence of death. A. and N.Z. Cable. THE DEATH OF CHILDERS. RESOLUTION OF PROTEST. LONDON, November 30. (Received December 1, at 8.50 a.m.) Tho Roger Casement Sian Fein Club, London, passed a resolution stating that it recognised that Childers, by the sacrifice of his life for Irish freedom, had added his name to the list of martyrs, and that it also recognised that “he was destroyed by Ireland’s ancient enemy, although to our shame the hand that struck him was Irish. We believe that his death was a vindictive murder contrary to human, civil, and military law.”—A. and N.Z, Cable. BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S NONINTERFERENCE. LONDON, November 30. (Received December 1, at 9.30 a.m.) Questioned as to whether (be Government had made any representations to prevent the execution of Childers or to make representations to prevent further executions, Mr Bonnr Law answered in the negative.—A. and N.Z. Cable.