FREE STATE POLITICS.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19066, 3 October 1933, Page 5

FREE STATE POLITICS.

A POLITICAL PRIEST. REPUBLICAN ADVOCATE. BRITISH BOYCOTT ADVISED. United Press Assr.— Elec. Tel. Copyright DUBLIN, Oct. i. The acting-president of the Sinn Fein Parliament, the Rev. Michael Flannagan, asked the delegates at today’s meeting of that body in Dublin to renew their adherence to the Republic. lie demanded a denunciation of the treaty and a repudiation of the English-invented and English-imposed constitution of a "mongrel Free State Dominion," and the abolition of partition. The speaker declared that complete Republican unity was a daily possibility, but it must entail the whole of Ireland’s independence. Mr. Dfi Valera was asking uncompromising Republicans to unite so that the Flarina Fail could prolong the usurping Parliament’s life.

Mr. Flannagan urged a boycott of British goods, but deprecated hungerstriking except in case of grave necessity.

DEMONSTRATIONS IN CORK. FISTS AND STICKS IN ACTION. HEARTY BLOWS DEALT OUT. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. CORK, Oct. 1. The city of Cork was packed to-day, but, in spite of the fact that the telephone wires were cut in the hope of impeding excursion trains, the United Ireland Party’s meeting was not seriously disturbed. A fetv hearty blows were struck with lists and sticks. One man produced a revolver, but was promptly disarmed. The ambulance men were not overworked. Steel-helmeted Irish Free State soldiers, equipped with tear gas bombs, protected General O’Duffy and his col,ldaguoa as '.they ’addressed 25,000 enthusiasts. Many of the men wore blue shirts and the women blue blouses.

The Irish Republican Army staged an ineffectual counter-demonstration. It paraded 1000 men in military formation, headed by a pipe band. The police prevented a collision. The city was filled with Civic Guards and armed troops who paraded the streets in lorries in the afternoon and evening.