FREE STATE ELECTIONS.
HOT CAMPAIGN EXPECTED. DE VALERA LEADS REPUBLICANS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, May 23: The general election in the Irish Free State begins to-dav with the issue of writs. A hot campaign is expected till June 8. The Ministers are already addressing the electors. There are eight parties in the field, including the Government, Republican, f n dependent, Clan Eiireann. . National, Farmers, Labour and Sinn Fein parties. Interest, centres in the Republicans, led bv De Valera, who is reported to have returned from America with plenty of money •'"’"d ample means to put .many eamliciji. ''forward. He claims that he will pporters from the Government, in nch event he would enter the Bail and assume office, but refuse the oath, thus immediately reopening- the treaty issue. Canto in W. A. Redmond’s 1 Nationals are exnected to nut un a stiff fight. The alignment of parties will become clearer in a few days, when the manifestos have been issued.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 May 1927, Page 5
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160FREE STATE ELECTIONS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 May 1927, Page 5
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