IRISH POLITICS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1933, Page 5

IRISH POLITICS

ELECTION TALK

A NEW MILITARY TRIBUNAL.

(United Press Association—By TElecfcrio

Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON, August 16-

• Anxious consultations' are taking place between the" members of tiie Cosgrave party in View of 'ah possible Free State election. f Ji : -

The position as between : ’the Blue Shirts and the OosgraVeites is' serious. It i s rumoured Mr Cosgrave is being urged to resign/ in order to show a united front against Mr de Valera. Several/of Mr Cosgrave’s l ex-Minist-ers are Blue Shirts, and they want to see General O’Duffy '> in thfe ', leading place of a possible Administration, but Mr Cosgrave and his intimates are opposed to .the introduction of General O’Duffy. •

The London “Daily ; ..Telegraph’s” Dublin correspondent says.-: It is assumed that. .the military tribunal will be established almost immediately. It may,'under the Public,Safety- Act, impose unrestricted penalties including flogging or ■ deathrfornpolitical. offences. It may hold isecrefc trials,, against which there would ,be no appeal., ' The Government has ordered the board of iworks tov remove a statue of Queen Victoria, standing .on a lawn at the front of the entrance of Leinster House before the Dajl Eireann re-as-bles.' '.. .A : A,

The: Free State .Cabinet,..;,.after a three hours’ meeting* . decided. tp ' establish a military tribunal to, deal with political offences. , • yj.,,, 1 ~ , An IrispFree State gazette .officially notifies additions .tp.:-the vFree State Constitution - by: which the .special. tribunal, can be established, : giving the police the powers of questioning and arrest on rsuspieipn, including the suspicion of > membership of , associations that are deemed to be unlawful. It also permits' of .the banning of public meetings. y.j . i v

CHURCH PARAbI BY BLUE / SHIRTS.

CANCELhED BY GEtf. O’DUFFY

DUBLIN, August 1 6 . ecclesiastical Interveiirian mass'" cancelled the church parades of Blue Shifts for Sunday next, .on . the grounds that the ecclesiastical- la\y ,4»es - not: r pennit such parades in-the cliurch priecintsj but General O'Duffy has 'substituted an assembly' of Blue Shifts in eacli district, at ,which a " two-minuteS’ silence will' he oberved in honour of ,tbe late Arthur Grrijffiths> Michael Collins and Brian O’H.iggiiis /after /.Eltjbh _ the eoffimanders Will (read an’.; impbi-fAnt 'iliesBttge from\GdrieralD’Diiff/., ; • ‘ General O’Duffy' states "that the time and place of these .iiatiM.parpffes. wiU be decided by the" Ideal commander. When asked whether"/ such! |phradeV would be held oi£ SuMay/ August' 20) hi declined to answer.- ■

IRISH VALUABLES TRANSFERRED

(Received tttis <iaj at 9.15'a'.m.) LONDON, August 16. - The “Chronicle’s” Dublin correspond, ent says that a big ‘scale 'transfer ’!<>' oU vJa&a.bles>'.‘:‘ including pictures, jewellery and heirlooms,, stored in Irish banks, is following the withdrawal of arms, because insurance companies declared that thei r policy does 'Cover /(civil ( 'commotion.”,; The 'banks, deprived of arms, are installing teargas equipment, .....