IRISH AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1932, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS

SMUGGLERS CAUGHT

HEAVILY FINED.

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BELFAST, Nov. 3

Two cattle drovers were fined £1953 each for illegally importing forty-five cattle from th'e'lrish''Ftrtee State into Ulster yfcr shipment' to ‘ Birltfenhead, England™ j- ' i" 1 \ ! The Ulster ■ Customs', tf uthorities have sold the cattle. • 1 11 v ,■

UNEMPLOYED DEMONSTRATION.

DUBLIN, Nov. 3

, Growing unemployment resulted in a great demonstration with many' angry speeches and threats of 'force unless something were, done quickly. Strong police contingents, however, prevented any disordej*. The - Lord Mayor ’Of Mr Byrne; says there ''a. o' »iany 'heartrendering cases of whole 'families not receiving relief, and starving' while many workless are flocking to the city, •

Unemployed, ..Donegal* are organising a hunger innrch fdr 'lhiblin, and other contingents aer joining,-

OPPOSITION ATriAOK

DUBLIN; - N6*. 3. “Where important -LR.A. leaders are concerned, the) are not functioning.” declared '. Mr Fitzgerald Kenny,. expVlinister oft; Justice, ,in a sensational attack in tlie JJail Eireaun. on Mr Connor McGtiifei’othe! AttorneyGeneral, v m Mr De Valera’s Executive Council, .in which hei alleged 'that Mr McGuire was j unfitted for this office. He referred "to a recent ; outrage in Mayo County.*, where, he spdy a ‘ gang attacked the house,,Of, Mr Gavin, an ex-officer of the Free State Army. Mr Gavin shot one man. This man. the police arrested, but they never prosecuted .him. , ‘T know Why the conspiracy .agaipsfr,-Gavin, was ignored,”;, said Mr also referred to a .“Kilrush/scanddl,;” which, he said, originated in the. shooting and wopnding of Gilmore and Ryan. 'The Commission had recently reported that in this instance the police, -exceeded their duty, and , in'.-oonsequence two of theih were dismissed,; and.: one. was transferred to the ~uniformed Mr Kepny ;urged that police, should be tried by a : Court- not by the prejudiced Commission,., one member of; which was y an >I.R f A.- counsel in Kerry.-The finding'of the Tribunal he said, had horrified* every one with a 4 !sense sf ( iusti<cp« v , : ,X.number qf pffeni ces. reportea to the Attorney-General were ignored, becaNisp ;he feared to injure the. party. , s} . \ Mr Connor McGuire, the Attorney-General,-ip; reply, denied-that he had set his faca v a^ajhs]t., i any- ; Interference by the Executive Counci). /There-had I been only three ,p$ .fppr cases in which any hint had beep given .as, to li° w he should deal with them.

QUESTIONS COMMONS. '; :* ‘>( ■ ■' y. - London,, Nov. 3. The “Daily Jifail” , says: Mr J. E. Thomas is to be asked in. the House of Commons to-day whether quantities of arms are . being imported into southern Ireland , from. Russia, which recalls repeated reports of gun running along wild stretches of the Cork and Kerry qoastis, enabling I.R.A. to replenish secret cramps. Strength was lent to those reports ,by British destroyers .stopping vessels bound for Irish ports, and also- by , the Free State Civic Guards’ enquiries, recently. There is a suspicion of arms being shipped from Russia, and transferred on the high seas.;,to .vessels 'going to Ireland, but authorities declare no proof of this has been obtained. A'l