IRISH FREE STATE TAKES DRASTIC ACTION
REVOLUTIONARY OUTBREAK CRUSHED RIGOROUSLY. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, November 22. Sixteen raids followed the proclamation of the State of Emergency* in the Free State and resulted in fifty* arrests. The offices of Republican newspapers were searched and current issues were confiscated. In view of the recent outbreaks of hostilities in Cork, the Dail Eireann endowed the Free State Government with drastic powers. Tn introducing the measure, Mr W. T. Cosgrave, President. of the Dail. said there was no doubt that a conspiracy* had been formed to subvert order in the Irish Free State. It was evident, he continued. that there was careful planning and some centre from which instructions were issued to carry out the armed raids in Cork, As these had been accomplished when telegraph wires were cut, trees felled and roads blocked.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18011, 23 November 1926, Page 15
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