IRISH AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1923, Page 3

IRISH AFFAIRS

[BY TELEGRAI'JT—PEIt I’ItESS ASSOCIATION.] THE IIUSII ELECTION'S. PELTED WITH EGOS. - WOMEN' MOST ANGRY. (.Received tnis dav at 9.25 am.) LONDON. August 22. While llie* liisli elections, general! are proceeding quietly there is a turhti lent element in seme (vwistituonoies, where eggs which, but for the dock strike, would have been on the English markets, were used with devastating effect in County Wexford. A flying squadron of youths followed the Government. Farmer and Labourer candidates pelting them with eggs and stones. Mr .Murphy, head of the Farmers’ A organisation, had an ordeal at Ramswhere eggs covered him from W head to foot.

Among the Republican speakers the women are the mast angry. Miss .Mary MaeSwinev told a Cork audience that all they had to do to ruin English trade was to stand together and defy England. Such talk is not convincing even tile Extremists.

President C'osgrave. replying to an interrupter at Knstlecomer, said: ‘AVo executed only when every appeal to reason failed. Make no mistake, wo will do it again if necessary. 1 neve;’ look strong action unless circumstance* demanded it.”