DEBATE IN DAIL

Evening Star, Issue 21090, 30 April 1932, Page 13

DEBATE IN DAIL

OATH REMOVAL BILL A LIVELY SCENE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. DUBLIN, April 29. Tho debate on the Oath Removal Bill was marked by plain speaking. Mr Dan Breen declared that he went to kill Lord French during the 1914 trouble in order to sever tho link with Britain, and ho would do the same again if the occasion arose. An amazing scene followed Mr O’Connor’s statement that members of the Irish Party in the House of Commons cheered the announcement of executions of Irishmen in 1910. “It is a damned lie!” shouted Mr John Dillon (Independent member for Coburn), who rushed at Mr O’Connor, and, snatching at his coat lapels, cried: “If you were younger I'd kill you whore you stand.” The hubbub of voices and tho clanging of bells were stilled when Mr Cosgrave, in a quiet voice, appealed to Messrs O’Connor and Dillon to withdraw, and both complied.

I.R.A. RAID

A MAN COURT MARTIALLED. LONDON, April 28. A message from Belfast states that Irish Republican Army raiders called at the house of Joseph Nixon, in Armagh City (Northern Ireland), and induced him to enter a motor car on the pretext that the police wanted him. The car was fdled with masked and armed men, who drove off to the country, where, following a court martial, Nixon was manacled in chains and trussed up, and two placards were affixed to his back and chest inscribed: “ Spies—beware.—l.R.A.” Nixon was driven to the centre of the city, where he was released. He managed to reach the police station, where the chains were removed. •* UNWARRANTED HASTE " (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 29. (Received April 30, at noon.) The Bill for the removal of the Oath of Allegiance was further debated-in the Irish Free State Dail. Despite vigorous opposition the motion proposed by Sir Do Valera for tho suspension of the Standing Orders, permitting the Dail to sit continuously until midnight to-morrow to conclude the second reading stage, was carried by 78 votes to 72. The Opposition Leader (Mr Cosgrave) declared that in exhibiting unwarranted haste Mr De Valera was trifling with the Dail.