IRISH DUTIES

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1932, Page 5

IRISH DUTIES

RETALIATORY TAX | CRITICISM OF BILL IN DAIL. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) DUBLIN, July. 18. Uonnolly, moving the. second ' reading of the : Emergency Duties Bill ; in the Free State Senate,, .said that it would enable reprisals against Britain, but would be . carefully and prudently ■ exercised. r ■ .j; Senator Mi’.roy (who escaped from Lincoln gaol with Air; 3e Valera) declared that the Bill should be accompapied by a medical certificate of the mental state of the Executive Council. One wondered'_wheiher. it was 'the work of criminal lunatics, pr those too cenBumed with the mania of a neurotic . ego. to regard matters normally. It • was hideous to think that they would plunge Ireland ' into mi-ery and destitution, The Government, in a few months, had brought the. country to' the most,, appalling position ever confront- -- • ing it. Cabinet’s policy was deatruc* \ i iveupfje' every thing Jtruilf sup since the V--. treaty:' Mr de Valera' wanted to return to i the conditions of 1921, and ‘ v hav e another round with England, ' Senator Browne said that no such •power* ag those in the Bill had ueen v. sought; in . the history of Parliament, Senator DouglaA said that the vut-r* would demand that the Government nt next election declare for a republic, . producing another econom'-c war, . which,; would be .more , than Wland • • • ■ could stand. • »'• “ . ..-.if ATTITUDE OF DE VALERA. V . . WANTS UNRESTRICTED .. arbitration. LONDON, J.uly 18. In the Irish Senate, Mr Eamonn de Vimlera, President of the Free .State i (Council :bf Ministers' replied to the debate on the Emergency Bill, enabling duties to be imposed bn imports from Britain. Mr de Valera'said that. the ‘ powers being taken in this measure .• ."were not,aimed at hurting the people lof 'Britain. Nor were they directed • in any aggressive spirit,' It was de. sired to- avoid suffering on both sides. Ireland, he said, would never surrender rights in order tb pay Britain the enor- I i mous tribute of five million pounds a ■' year. j lera, to, say that Irish’farmers had en- 1 J tered into a contract 'such as that of ‘ - bondholders. He admitted that any r dispute; was better, settled -within the family, but',, though '-le , in ar-; / ' !0 Kitfatibh* he was opposed to the restrictioa 'of the personnel of the Arbi- •' trial Court to a geographical /area. Ar- . titration, he y said, ' was the only way out, but thb tribunal must not be a restricted one, He had gone out of hig way to meet the British, .and he had dotfe, everything possible except to surrender the Irish/people’s rights, . i j . Ireland, he contiuued j , had been .. driven to seek for alternative markets. • EChe 'people, who had been hungry, would remain in hunger ho longer. The Bill was read the second time, ; without a division.

IRISH DELEGATION AT OTTAWA. ■ v OTTAWA, July 18. , The Free Sta: 6 delegation will not dissociate itself from the formal proceedings of the conference, when it opens on Thursday, according to information gathered to-day, Whil 6 there has been no official statement to this effect, members close (to Mr O’Kelly declared that members of the Free State delegation had Hot the intention of separating themselves from the messages wiliich ordinarily emerge from the Imperial Conference to the King. As members of the. Conference, the delegation regard it as their duty to conform to the usual courtesies. ■ : • GERMAN COAL FOR IRELAND. LONDON, July 18. The “Daily 'Herald” says; “Ten thousand tons of German coal have already been sold to the Irsh Free State. lDe l iyery will shortly be made from Antwerp at a price that is 3s per ton Tess than the British, prices. The South Wales coal owners who 'Supply 400,000 tors of coal annually to Ireland, are seriously perturbed. SENSATIONAL SLUMP IN PRICES. (Received .this day at 9.30 a.m.) DUBLIN, July 19. Prices for agricultural produce show sensational falls. Eggs are fivepence * dozen, butter sixpence a pound, while livestock is unsaleable. Many Irish families are laying in heavy .stocks or British coal anticipating the tax. .>