IRISH AFFAIRS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18754, 6 January 1923, Page 9

IRISH AFFAIRS

THE RAILWAY DISPUTE. GOVERNMENT TAKES ACTION. Proas Association —By Telegraph—Copyright . LONDON, January 4. The Dublin Government is taking over the Great Southern and Western Railway, and is making good the difference between the receipts and the expenses. The cost to the taxpayer is approximately D 12,000 a week. The Government recommends three other companies, which are sounder financially, to come to a speedy agreement with tfio unions. The Government is considering the position of the smaller companies, if they are unable to carry on themselves they will be taken over and restricted services run.—A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON COMMISSIONER APPOINTED. LONDON, January 4. Mr James MacNeili has been appointed High Commissioner for the Free State in London. He was formerly an Indian Civil Servant, and held the rank of Commissioner. He is a brother of the Free State Cabinet Minister (Professor MacNeill).—A. and N.Z. Cable. a Truce wanted. LONDON, January 4. The Rathmines (Dublin} Urban Council, the maiority of the members of which are Protestants and Unionists, adopted a resolution calling for an immediate truce.— A. and N.Z. Cable. v REBEL OPERATIONS. GOODS TRAIN DESTROYED. LONDON, January 4. Rebels held up a goods train from Dundalk to Clones. They removed a rail on an embankment. Then they restarted the train, and when going at full speed it somersaulted into a field, where the wreckage was set on fire.—A. and N.Z. Cable.' THE PAST FORGIVEN. LONDON, January 6. (Received Jan. 5, at 7.20 p.m.) Mr Cosgrave, speaking in the DaiL in support of the Amnesty to British Military Offenders’ Bill, which was read a second time, said that all the Connaught Rangers who were imprisoned for their mutiny at Jullundur in 1920 had been released. Mr O’Higgins said the case of Dowling, who war captured while landing from i. German submarine, was being considered. —A. and N.Z. Cable. .