VITAL BY-ELECTION

Wairarapa Age, 16 March 1929, Page 5

VITAL BY-ELECTION

TERRORISM IN THE IRISH FREE STATE. GOVERNMENT SEEKS MANDATE TO UPHOLD LAW. A SINISTER DOCUMENT. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received Friday, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 16. In view of Mr. Cosgrave’s slender majority in the Dail and the important issue at stake, the fate of the Irish Free State Government is considered to depend on the result of the North Dublin by-elec-tion, the result of which is expected. to be known this evening. The Government has made the suppression of terrorism the major issue, and. has asked for a mandate to crush lawlessness. The candidates are the Government nominee, Dr. Thomas O’Higgins, brother of the murdered Minister, Kevin O’Higgins; and the representative of the Fianna Fail, Oscar Traynor, who is supported by the Communist leader, James Larkin. The Government has issued an extract from a document found in the possession of one of those arrested in the recent raid: “We must devote all our energies to destroying Ministers and their property. We must train our members to use firearms, bombs and mines and blow up theatres and cinemas.” The police for the past week have made 156 detentions in the hope of securing the ringleaders.— (Australian Press Association.)