IRISH AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1927, Page 3

IRISH AFFAIRS

IRISH POLITICS. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Aug. 18. A Dublin correspondent says that the Executive Council intends immediately to enforce the Public Safety Act. Many of the Government's supporters advise to the contrary, because there is no longer a Parliamentary majority in favour of the Act, but Mr Cosgrove and his colleagues consider that if the Act was sound last <week, it is sound to-day, and they therefore must enforce its provisions. If this view prevails, the Republican Army and Fianna Boy Scouts organisation may lie proclaimed illegal in the near future. The Military Courts cannot 'be established till the Dail sits.

Air Hcnly with-held his signature from the Electoral Amendment Act, which compels candidates to declare, before nomination, that they will take the oath of allegiance, if elected to r either House. De Valera ites, Labour, and the National League, constituting two-fifths of the Dail, petition for the suspension of the Act, wherefore it cannot become law until the fulfilment of the constitutional provision providing for its suspension ninety days, pending the arrangement of a referendum.

The effect of this may lie that candidates will make no declaration before their nomination at the next election .

LONDON, Aug. 18. t John Jinks sent a letter to Mi* Redmond resigning from the Nationalist Party.

Mr De A r alera is losing a prominent supporter, Mrs Sheohv Skeffington, whose husband was shot in the Rebellion. She is quitting the Fia-nna Fail because Mr De Valera has taken the oath.