CLEAR-CUT ISSUE

Northern Advocate, 16 March 1929, Page 9

CLEAR-CUT ISSUE

TERRORISM SUPPRESSION,

COSGRAYE’S MAIN PLANK,

BY-ELECTION FIAT AWAITED.

(Australian Press Association.) ■r. (Received .Bil 7. ,a.m.) :. .. _ .. LONDON, March ,15. In view of Mr W. T. Cosgrave's slender, majority in the Dail Eireann and important issues at stake, the fate of the Irish Free State Government is considered to depend on the ■ result of the North Dublin by-election, which is expected to be known this evening. • '

The Government- has made suppression of terrorism the major issue, and has asked'for a inaiidatd to crush lawlessness', '"

The candidates are the Government nominee, Dr, Thomas O'Higgins, brother i of the murdered Mr Kevin O'Higgins, and the representative of the Fianna-’ Fail, Mr Oscar Traynor, who supported the Communist leader, Mr .Tames Larkin.; ' / The Government has issued an extraflf from a document found in the possession of one of the men arrested in the, recent raid, which states: UWe must devote *all our energies to- destroying ministers and their property. We must train members to use firearms, bombs and mines, and to blow up theatres and cinemas." .The police during the past week have made 150 detentions, in the hope of securing the ringleaders.

0 'HIGGINB MAJORITY.

RECOUNT ORDERED,

, (Australian Press Association.) (Received 10.7 a.m.) • '' 1 LONDON, March 15. The polling in the North Dublin byelection resulted as follows: O’HigginAßGdveihrment) 28,400 ■ Traynor (De Valeraite) .. 28,276 k recount has been ordered. A later message says that the recount gave the following figures:— O ■’Higgins 28,445 • Traynor .... 28,394

Government majority .... 51