FREE STATE'S CHALLENGE.
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AMNESTY - NOT WEAKNESS. By Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. ' ;-,- ..;■. (Received. 8.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. , ' -'"- ' , 'DUBLIN, Aug. , & The President of 'the Dail Eireann, Mr William ■ T. Cosgrave, . speaking -at : Monaghan on behalf of the Free State Government, offered an < amnesty to < all rebels provided they accepted it in good faith and respected the peoples' institutions, and the democratic laws 'of the country. '■:!-;,, ;'.
The meeting was notable in that for the first time Orangemen appeared on the same election platform with Free Staters.
Mr. Cosgrave said that he had told the irregulars " that if they had been worth a damn they would have beaten us a year ago. They had more men and were better armed and better disciplined. Yet we produced an army that knocked the devil out of them. If it 'ias to be done again we ; will do it. So whenever the opportunity seems fitting for them to take the field, let them take itg we will give them our answer."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18471, 7 August 1923, Page 7
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