DELIGHT IN DUBLIN

Grey River Argus, 15 March 1932, Page 5

DELIGHT IN DUBLIN

I.R.A. MEN’S MARCH To College Green (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). (Received Alarch 14 at 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Alarch 14. The “Daily Alail’s” Dublin correspondent reports as follows:—Four battalions of the Irish Republican Army, headed by Irish Pipers, and carrying their standards, which had been hidden for months, inarched to College Green in Dublin. The battalions were received with greater cheers, accompanied by shouts of “Up the 1.R.A.!” than the cheers given the prisoners who were released last week. There was an amazing scene witnessed as the I.R.A. performed military evolutions before the d-lighted crowds. Their military work proved that the battalions had undergone many hours of secret drilling. Tl-.e police, whose duly, until last week, would have been 10 arrest the mai chers. had now been ordered to assist at th.- demonstration by controlling the crowd and regulating traffic. , Another proscribed Society which has reappeared is the Cumann Na mßan or the Women’s Republican Organisation,

consisting of several neatly uniformed girls whom the police gallantly helped through the crowd.

ECONOMIC IMPERIALISM. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, March 13. The “Observer” says: If Air De Valera breaches a solemn pact by abolishing the oath of allegiance, Britain will in nowise be alarmed, either by the abolition, or its propagandist repercussion in India and South Africa, but she will not protend to ignore it. She will undoubtedly intimate that in the economic organisation of the Empire just beginning, allegiance and preference go together. If Ireland can dispense with honour, England can better dispense with Irish produce. If the issue is forced upon her, England will do so without compunction.