CABLE NEWS. THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1922, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

AUSTRALIAN ANII N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

DANCE AMID BULLETS. LONDON, September 8. There was an unparalleled scene at a dance held in Drogheda. The officers of the Free State garrison, there attended it with an escort. At 1 o’clock the dance was interrupted hy rifle fire which smashed some windows.

The dancing, however, was resumed. Bullets later commenced to pepper the hall room. The officers then ordered

the company to throw themselves on the ground. Some of the Indies refused to do so, urging that their dresses would be spoiled, but when one soldier received a bullet in the leg, the ladies risked the damage to their costumes.

However, during a lull in the firing, a- waltz was resumed, but then the plaster commenced to fall off the walls owing to some stray bullets.. The dancers again were obliged to prostrate themBelves on the. floor. Yet they subsequently resumed their waltz, while the officers fired revolvers and rifles at those who fired from outside.

DAIL EIREANN MEETS

MR GINN ELL REJECTED

LONDON, Sept !>

(Received this day at 8 a.m.)

The Dai I Ei return met to-day. The Only nnti-Trentyite present was Dinned, a Sniii Fein Commoner, who did not participate in the rebellion, who formerly created many scenes in the Commons, but does not now attend sittings thereof. Mr Cosgrnvo and Mr Hayes were Unanimously ekrtdd President and Spenker respectively. Mr Cosgrave announced members o! the Cabinet as folldws: —M. Fitzgerald (Foreign affairs), Mr O’Higgins (Home Affairs), Mr Nclytlie (Local Government), Mr Kogan (Agriculture), Mr McGrath (Commerce, Trade and Labour), Mr Mulcnhy (Defence), Mr Walsh (Postmaster-General), Mr Duggan (Honorary Minister). Mr Giilnel! at the opening, circulated notice of motion challenging the Government’s right to make war on the Republicans, accusing it of illegally preventing <1 meeting of the Dttil ts> deal with the situation. He refused to sigii the roll and demanded to know whether the meeting was a Dail tor all Ireland, or only a portion of a Parliament. Mr Ginned continued interrupting the proceedings and defied the Speaker’s ruling, that as lie had not signed the rod, lie was not a member, and was forcibly ejected, resisting violently. Mr Cosgrave said the Government's policy would be to carry out the treaty which established the constitution, and also to assert the authority of Parliament He asked Parliament for powers to restore law and ordei. to expedite the return to normal eonditoins. and te> carry out the weak of reconstruction and reformation. IRREGULAR ESCAPES. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 10. A prominent leader of t’.c Iris i Irregulars, Tom Barry, who attempted to enter Four Courts disguised as a nurse dui'iii" the fighting in Dublin, escaped from Gornianstowii prison by climbing the wire entanglement. ,