THE DAIL’S DISCUSSION.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15113, 23 December 1921, Page 5

THE DAIL’S DISCUSSION.

".REPUBLICANS VERY ACTIVE. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) LONDON, Dec. 22, ! [Members of th o Dail Eire_ann who •are in a. position of authority, forecast an equal clivison, seating tintthe anti-treaty groups have ;von many adherents during th 0 debate. A number of'members will vote against the treaty if they can bo sure that it will be carried. They want tfie glory of opposing without / the consequences. The rank and file of the republicans are re-organising the Sinn Fein clubs on a revolutionary basis. Some battalions of the republican army are openly threatening what they will do if the treaty is ratified. A Sinn Fein gang in Feeny, Coun--ty Derry, operating over a wide tract, took 15 men prisoners, in press gang fashion, and removed them to an unknown destination. The Sinn Feiners attempted to divide, but the police arrested five, and instituted a house-to-house search,. unearthing a regular bomb arsenal and manufacturing plant for other requisites of warfare on a big scale. They later rescued some men who said that they had been taken from their beds and compelled to tramp the hills, only being .allowed bread ana water,