IRISH ELECTIONS.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, 23 August 1923, Page 5

IRISH ELECTIONS.

PLENTY OF EGGS., AND ARGUMENTS. (A. and N.Z. Cable). LONDON, Aug. 22. While the Irish elections generally are proceeding quietly there, is a turbulent element in some constituencies, where eggs, which but for the dock .strike, would have been on the English markets, were used with devastating effect. In County Wexford a flying squad of youths follows the Government, Farmer and Labour candidates pelting them with eggs and stones. Mr. Murphy, head of the Farmers organisation had an ordeal at Ramsgrange where eggs covered him from head to foot. Among the Republican speakers, the women are the most angry. Miss Mary MacSwiney told a Cork audience all they had to do to ruin the English trade was to stand, together and defy England, such talk is not convincing even to extremists.

Mr. Cosgrave, in replying to an interrupter at Castlecomer, said, “We executed only when every appeal to reason failed. Make no mistake, I will do it again, if necessary. I never took strong action unless circumstances demanded it.”