AN IRISH REPUBLIC

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22352, 28 August 1934, Page 7

AN IRISH REPUBLIC

MR DE VALERA’S DEMAND PROVISO FOR THE NORTH LONDON, August 26. The Observer’s Dublin correspondent says; “Unofficial efforts are being made to reopen Anglo-Irish negotiations. They are chiefly directed; at the separation of economic and political disputes. _ It is believed that Mr de Valera’s minimum demand is a republic for the whole of Ireland with a proviso that Northern Ireland ■can remain outside until it voluntarily decides otherwise.” ' ~ WARNING TO BLUE SHIRTS . v LONDON, August 26. . Sir Dawson Bates (Minister of Home Affairs for Northern Ireland), speaking at Ballymoney,/warned the Blue Shirts that the Government would ruthlessly deal with attempts to establish Blue Shirts in Ulster, A NEW ORGANISATION WORKERS’ REPUBLIC LONDON, August 27. (Received August 27, at 10 p.m.) ' The Daily Telegraph’s Dublin correspondent says: “ A new development in politics promises trouble. Leading members of the Irish Republican Army:have resigned from the new organisation with a view to declaring a workers’ republic, and are already recruiting a militant citizens’ army in connection with the scheme, which visualises a final struggle for power with the Blue Shirts. , The members of the so-called Republican Congress, who are recruiting the citizens’ array, use Communist catchwords, though they deny that they accept all that Communism stands for in Russia. Nevertheless their aims include seizure of the Government and banks and division of the big farms into free plots for the unemployed. The Congress is seeking recruits among factory workers, small farmers, farm labourers, and’ the unemployed. The leaders include Leader O’Donnell, novelist and playwright, George Gilmore, who .led the armed raid on Mountjoy prison and rescued 17 prisoners, Frank Ryan, the editor of An Phoblacht, the I.R.A. organ, and Michael Price, formerly director of training for the I.R.A.