NEW OPPOSITION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 243, 11 September 1933, Page 7

NEW OPPOSITION.

IRISH PREMIER’S ATTACK. . THE NATION’S TASK. Received September 11, 12.30 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 12. The Premier, Mr De Valera, attacking the new opposition in a speech at Dundalk, declared that Ireland was facing a crisis involving its national existence, and the aim of the merger was to induce her to surrender. The Cosgraveites were resorting to every falsehood to inspire the people with defeatism and were toying with the idea of a dictatorship, while General O’Duffy was organising an army for the overthrow of representative institutions, and those in the Dail were creating a favourable atmosphere for its operations, absolving the British Government from all guilt. But those who made civil war in 1922 had failed to produce another, Mr De Valera added. If they had patriotically accepted the people’s decision in 1932 there would have been no economic war with a powerful Empire endeavouring to exact an unowed tribute wine; it was impossible to pay. Ireland, if beaten, would be faced with a hopeless future, but if she won the economic war she should comfortably maintain her increased population. She wanted peace with England and peace at home. The watchwords must be unity and discipline, and the MacDermott Party’s conspiracy against the payment of rates must be stopped before all the local services broke down, Mr De Valera added. SIGNIFICANT EVENTS.

EXCITEMENT IN DUBLIN.

LONDON, Sept. 8. Yhree events fanning political excitement in Dublin to fever-beat to-day were the fusion of the Opposition parties, the Republican disturbances in Dublin, and the arrest of nine Waterford farmers for trial by a military tribunal for alleged complicity in a rates boycott. , . Events are marching to a crisis from ■which Mr de Valera can only emerge through a successful election.