IRISH CONSTITUTION
DAIL APPROVES CHANGES.
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LONDON, October 13.
In the Dail Eireann, Mr. O’Neill asked: “Is the King now finally and irrevocably dead constitutionally?” when 'he discussion on the three bills amending the constitution was resumed.
Mr. De Valera did not reply to him. Mr. McDermott asked if these bills would affect Lough Erne fisheryrights, which question was going to the Privy Council. Mr. De Valera replied that the results of the Privy Council appeal would be nullified if they- conflicted with the decision of the Irish Supreme Court. The Dail Eireann passed the third reading of these bills, which now go to the Senate. The latter Chamber will be entitled to hold them up for eighteen months.
Profesor O’Sullivan protested against a motion to adjourn the Dail Eireann till November 15. He said it was necessary to watch the De Calera, Government, which w-as armed with immense powers under the Public Safety Act. and that it applied to them irresponsibly and tyrannically.
Mr. De Valera, in his summing up speech, criticised both the I.R.A. and the Blue Shirts. The position, he said, was difficult and dangerous. The Government would not loosen its control.
The Dail adjourned till November 15. The Irish municipal elections have been postponed from November to July. The Opposition has twitted the Government that it feared defeat of its supporters.
ARRESTS AT BELFAST. (Received October 14, 11 a.m.) BELFAST, October 13. As a sequel to the murder of a, policeman, Anderson, on October 9, a large force of armed police and detectives, in armoured cars, made a midnight, round up of the I.R.A. Thirty-three were arrested, and are expected to he deported to the Free State, with fourteen others recently arrested for drilling in a shed. The Coroner, delivering a verdict that Anderson was murdered by- persons unknown, declared: This coldblooded. dastardly, wanton, unspeakably- vile crime makes one wonder ”’hat sort of civilisation we are living in,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 October 1933, Page 7
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