FREE STATE POLITICS
TERRORISM THE ISSUE. (Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, March 15. In view of President Cosgrave’s slender majority in the Dail Eireann and the important issue at stake, the state of the Irish Free State Government is considered to depend on the result of the North Dublin by-election, the result of which is expected to be known this evening. The Government has made a suppression of terrorism the major issue and his and has asked for a mandate to crush lawlessness. The candidates are: The Government nominee, Dr Thomas O’Higgins (brother of the murdered Kevin O’Higgins); and the representative of Fianna Fail, Mr Oscar Traynor, who supported the Communist leader, James Larkin. The Government has issued an extract from a document found in possession of one of those arrested in. the recent raid, viz., “We must devote all our energies to destroying the Ministers and their property. We must train the members, to use firearms, bombs, mines, and blow up theatres and cinemas.” The police for the past week have made 150 detentions in the hope of securing ringleaders.
A GOVERNMENT WIN. Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (By Cable —Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Recd. March 16, 10 a.m.) LONDON, March 15. The North Dublin by-election resulted :— O’Higgins (Ministerialist) ... 28,400 Traynor (De Valeraite) ... 28,276 A recount has been ordered. LATER. . The recount resulted: —• O’Higgins 28,445 Traynor 28,394
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1929, Page 7
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