IRISH DUTY BILL

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1932, Page 5

IRISH DUTY BILL

IN DAIL EIREANN COSGRAVE PARTY APPEAL. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.; LOAD ON, July 23. ■ Late last night, the Ji’»s'h i’ re© '■state iDail Eireann, having rejeeicu Lii<* ate's recommendations to me Emergency Duties 8.11, passed m e LJ without a division, and the rsiil latoi was submitted to : uae uoyernoivoentra i,. Air McNeill, for his assent. ,Mr Cosgrave stated that he did not beiieve that the British uoyoriiTneut Would have got from its .parliament powers so far-reaching as those eonum. «u su 1:: 8 BiL. V Mr de Valera undertook that the powers conferred''/would not be abused, fie added that the free State Government were not anxious to extend the area of friction.

LONDON, July 23

: ■ Th Cosgrave Party in the i)ail ; ‘Eireann, representing four hundred thousand electors,i hav© issued a statement “calling on all patriotic Irishmen to usis ©very effort to prevent a disastrous economic war with Britain, into which the Irish people are being dragged.” The statement further says: “The : first casualties will be the poorest, but ultimately r.o class will escape. The path to an agreement lies in ■ direct negotiation, and not in arbitration. UNITED IRELAND PROPOSAL. UNDER TUE PRINCE OF WALES; , LONDON, July 23. The famous Irish jockey, Mr Michael -Beary, told a “Daily Express” representative how h’e had acted as a go-be-tween for Air de Valera and Downing ■■Street, following on a talk he had with Right Hon. J. OH. Thomas, whom he knew /well. Thence lie acted through Mr Dan Breen, ; '(member of; the Dail) a man behind Mr de Valera. He (Air Beary) later received a letter 'from Mr Dan Breen, containing a proposal for a United IreJand, the North of Ireland joining the Free State as a willing partner with th© Prince of Wales as the head of the New Ireland. IMr Beary ,later saw, land conversed, wil’i Air de Valera on this subject 1 whilst the.former (Beary) was in Ireland for the Irish Derby, which he won on Dastur. . J Mr Beary adds: “Even extremists in Ireland want to see English, people back ■again and to see Ireland prosperous. They would like, above everything else, to see th 6 Prince of Wales at the head of a United Ireland.”