IRISH INTERNEES
NO WORSE OFF THAN MEN THEY RUINED. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 19th January. , Interviewed regarding the appeal which De Valera's supporters are making in Australasia and elsewhere for funds to relieve distress, especially among dependents of political prisoners, President .Cosgrave said that the irregulars would regard subscriptions as evidence of hostility to the Government. Disbursements therefrom would be au encouragement for renewed destruction. President Cosgrave admits that unemployment in Ireland is serious, but the dependents of prisoners Vere not in a worse plight than the families which were deprived of their breadwinners, or the business. men who were ruined by the irregulars. The interned in June had numbered 12,000; now there were 1800. He hoped to liberate in a few months 'nil thoso against whom no criminal charges were proved or pending.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1924, Page 7
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138IRISH INTERNEES Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1924, Page 7
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