IRELAND’S FREEDOM

Evening Star, Issue 18144, 7 December 1922, Page 4

IRELAND’S FREEDOM

THE CONSTITUTION BILL. ROYAL ASSENT RECEIVED. FREE STATE NOW ESTABLISHED. Press Associstion—By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON, December 5. The Irish Constitution Bill has received the Royal Assent, —A, and N.Z. Cable. FREE STATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. "PLAIN TIM TIEALY.” LONDON. December 5. Mr T, M. Healy interviewed, said : “I have always been plain Tim 'Healy, and as Governor-General I shall always hope to remain Tim Hcaiy. I shall never accept a title. Simplicity will he my keynote of office."—A, and N.Z. Cable. THE PRESIDENT’S HEALTH. A WELL-EARNED HOLIDAY. LONDON, December 5. After the assembly of the Free State Parliament, Mr Cosgrave, acting on medical advice, will take two months’ holiday. Besides his public worries Mrs Cosgrave is seriously ill.—A. and N.Z. Cable. DE VALERA. ANXIOUS TO THROW UP THE SPONGE, LONDON. December 5, 'Die Republicans’ failure to attempt, their expected coup d’etat is believed to bo due to delectations in their ranks. It’is freely declared in Dublin that Do Valera is anxious for a cessation of hostilities.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ARMS FOR REBELS. AN IMPORTANT CAPTURI-'. LONDON, December 5. The Liverpool police report the seizure of arms on ships sailing to South Ireland, The anus included many thousands of rounds of rifle and revolver ammunition and ball cartridges, and also a largo quantity of chemicals used in the manufacture of high explosives. The arms were hidden under a layer of kegs labelled “putty,” Twelve, casks of chemicals were labelled “soda.” A quantity of ammunition was also found concealed in a cargo of fodder on another Southern Irish vessel.—A. and N.Z. Cable. COMMENTS IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, December 6. ''(Received December 7, at 9.30 a.m.) The Press welcomes the Irish Free State, auid congratulates the Irish and English peoples upon the cessation of strife, which had lasted for more than a century. The ‘New York Herald’ advises Ireland to look upon Canada and Australia and to draw a lesson. The ‘ Times-Herald ’ regards the event os one of the most important in the world’s history. It plants a long poem •honoring Ireland.—A. and N.Z. Cable. CONGRATULATIONS FROM SOUTH AFRICA, GENERAL SMUTS’S MESSAGE. CAPE TOWN, December 6. (Received December 7, o-t 11.15 a.m.) General Smuts abled to Mr Cosgrave : Now that the Irish Free State has come into being, I desire, on behalf of the people ’and Government of the Union, to send my sincerost congratulations on the great historical event. The treaty between England and Ireland, which has now become law, will not only give added prestige and solidarity to our great Commonwealth of Free Nations, but as a great act of moral and political reaction it will have a world-wide influence, in view of the intense racial and national passion such as we are passing through. Tito people of South Africa learnt from their own history that a great act of faith such a.s tiiis justifies itself, in spile of the most formidable difficulties, and they trust and pray that under lire now Constitution tho people of Ireland may achieve peace and happiness and that spiritual union with other peoples of tho King, which is stronger and more lasting than any political union. —A. and N.Z. Cable.