REPUBLICAN REVIEW

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 April 1935, Page 7

REPUBLICAN REVIEW

De Valera Unveils Statue in Memory of 1916 Victims THOUSANDS PAY HOMAGE ORDERLY 'CELEBRATIONS

{United Free* Aesoclatlon -By Eleoilio Telegraph Copyright). Received 11 a.m. to-day. DUBLIN, April 21. The Easter celebrations were orderly. The Republican flag flew from the Post Office, where Mr -E. Do- Valera, in unveiling a statue in commemoration of the victims of the 1916 rising, said the time to erect a proud monument to the inspirers of the Republican movement has not yet arrived, but Ireland would not content herself with, anything less than independence. ■Subsequently Mr De Valera reviewed a parade of 6500 Free State soldiers and volunteers and many participants who fought in 1916. After the review, from -which Mr De Valera departed with a cavalry escort, detachments of the Republican Army headed by bands, marched in a downpour to Glasnevin Cemetery, where they paid homage at the graves of the 1916 victims. Two thousand police and Civic Guards maintained order in the stree ts.

Maurice Twomey, Chief of the Staff of the Republican Army, who recently has been in hiding, reappeared and spoke at Glasnevin, .surrounded by a bodyguard. He escaped without being, pursued. Thomas Green was arrested at Newry Cemetery when attempting to >ead a Republican Army manifesto to thousands of Republicans quietly witnessing the unveiling of a memorial to four Republicans shot in the civil- war of 1923.