ANGLO-IRISH CRISIS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 269, 28 October 1932, Page 4

ANGLO-IRISH CRISIS

USE OF ANNUITIES MONEY. London, Oct 27. The ‘‘Dailly Telegraph’s” special Dublin correspondent understands that Mr de Valera is convinced that there is not the slightest chance of his viewpoint being accepted by Britain and has decided to devote the accumulated annuities payments, now totalling over £2,000,000, to the purposes of the Free State, including strengthening the position of his own political party. WARM WORDS IN DAIL. Dublin, Oct. 26. ‘God knows 1 don’t want to revive hatred and bitterness,” said General Mulcahy in the Dail when tabling amendments to the Pensions Bill withholding pensions to persons who shot members of the provisional Government and other officials. Mr Aiken retorted that if General Mulcahy wanted trouble he would get all he wanted. Recalling service under General Mulcahy, he said: “I burned 16 trains at General Mulcahy’s orders, using whisky, not petrol, and was praised for it. Mulcahy showed himself a bully and behaved brutally when the victor. We want pensions for the dependents of the men he executed.”