IRISH ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1929, Page 6

IRISH ELECTIONS

POLICE RAID IN DUBLIN. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON. March 0. There has been 39 arrests of young men living in Dublin and in the suburbs. These arrests have n followed, with dramatic swiftness, President Cosgrave’s pronouncement last night (as to intimidation of jurors).

The police planned the coup for the small hours of the morning and they raided various houses before the dawn, after a night’s active preparation. All of the arrested men were in bed and they were ordered to dress. 'They were then hurried to Bridewell Prison, closely guarded.

Fourteen of those arrested were released in the morning. The remainder were very lively prisoners. The police had a strenuous time and there were many smashed windows. The prisoners will probably lie charged with damaging Government property, in addition to other charges, which are not vet revealed.

The prisoners’ friends and relatives heseiged the Bridewell Prison, singing and shouting, tlie prisoners joining in. The “Daily' News’s” Dublin correspondent is ol the opinion that if the North Dublin by-election is unfavourable to the Cosgrave Government. the Public Safety Bill, which expired in December last, will he ieintraduced, and that if the Government is defeated on this Bill, a general election will follow, and will be fought ’on the question of the public safety issue.

Mr Frank Fahey, one ol Mr Eamonn De Valera’s lieutenants, declares that he and his friends do not sympathise with any methods of assassination, hut adds that violence'is likely to continue as long as the Daily Eireann members are required to take an oath ol allegiance to a foreign king. Such horrible deeds by secret organisations, he added, were likely to continue until every section had free entry to the Daif Eireann. ____