IRISH FREE STATE

Evening Star, Issue 21218, 27 September 1932, Page 7

IRISH FREE STATE

THE WHITE ARMY FOUNDER REPLIES TO THREATS firm Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. DUBLIN, September 26. ■“ I defy them I Let them do their damnedest! We are going to carry on despite the threats of intimidation,” declared Mr O’Higgins, the founder of the White Army, when replying to threats of Ministers that criticism of Ministers was tantamount to treason. He added: “Moreover, the White 'Army is going to call things by their proper names; a coward will be called a coward and a blackguard a blackguard.”

Mr Mulcahy, a former Minister, similarly accepted the challenge when speaking at Bray, where the White Army ejected a hostile section of the audience. He declared that “ nobody supposes that Mr Cosgrave or Mr Mulcahy will be imprisoned, first, because Mr De Valera, who has scrupulously refrained from personal abuse, dislikes his followers’ fulminations; secondly, the leaders of both parties are restrained by their responsibility, due to the existence of the I.R.A. and the White Army, everyone desiring to prevent their clashing.”

Meanwhile, the Ministers are anxiously and hastily attempting to prop up the collapsing structure, fearing the Labourites’ discontent and the farmers’ co-operation, which are new phenomena in Irish politics.—London - Times ’ Cable.