ARMS FOR IRELAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21068, 30 December 1931, Page 9

ARMS FOR IRELAND.

SMUGGLED FROM RUSSIA. STRONG ACTION THREATENED. LONDON. Dec. 17. The existence of a Russian plot against the Government of the Irish Free State is admitted in official circles at Dublin, says the Sunday Graphic's Dublin correspondent. Aims are being smuggled into Ireland from Russia at remote inlets, being mingled with ordinary cargo from the Black Sea. The. Soviet is subsidising seditious organisations within the .Free State, but the President of the Dail, Mr. W. T. Cosgravc, in an interview with the Sunday Graphic, announces that, these bodies will be pursued with the utmost rigour. "Foreign Communists and their plans of violence will be ruthlessly crushed, Mr. Cosgravc declares. "Bullets will not be allowed to beat the ballot. Secret societies and gunrunners will receive, no mercy from the Courts and the Judges will be protected from criminal vendettas. "The Chinch and the Government have both cast out the gunmen, who are pariahs among Irishmen. The authorities have proof that women are acting as chief agents and paymasters for the Soviet. Inhabitants, of seaside places, terrified at the prospect of meeting the fate of informers, pretend ignorance of what is happening.