STRENGTH OF REPUBLICANS

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 28 January 1933, Page 9

STRENGTH OF REPUBLICANS

Free State Poll Progress ABOVE ALL OTHER FACTIONS All-Ireland Plan Futile OPINIONS OF CRAIGAVON ULSTER LOYALTY TO CROWN. (British Official Wireless.) Received 1.15 p.m. to-day. RUGBY, Jan. 27. To-night’s latest .returns in the Irish Free State election show the state of the parties as follows: — Do Valera Party • 63 Cosgrave Party 37 Labour ~ Independent Labour 1" Centre 8 Independent &

All of Mr de Valera’s ministers were re-elected and all except (MriGeoghegan head the poll on the first preferences. ; Miss Pearse is -the third woman to be elected. 'She is a sister of Padraig Pearse, who was executed in 1916. Five C'osgraveites, two Centre Party, four Lao our and one Independent forfeited deposits. No Fiannaites had to forfeit.

‘ Mr Dan Breen, Fiannalte, was elected for Tipperary. “Efforts to ereato an All-Ireland Republic would be futile,” said Lord Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, addressing the Ulster Unionist Council. ‘ “Northern: loyalists are thoroughly prepared to defeat attempts to incorporate Ulster 'therein. The people would rise in wrath and contemptuously spurn every endeavour to subdue their allegiance to the crown.”