LAND ANNUITIES

Hokitika Guardian, 18 September 1933, Page 6

LAND ANNUITIES

POPE COUNSELS SETTLEMENT MR MACDERMOTT’S STATEMENT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyrights) (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON,. September 17. The “Empire News’ ” Dublin correspondent, referring to Mr MacDermott’s statement “that high authority counselled the settlement of the land annuities dispute,” declares that the personage meant is the Pope. Doctor Paschal Robinson, papal representative in Dublin, frequently consulted the Pope, in this connection, and recently interviewed the Prime of Ireland. Mr MacDermotts pronouncement has encouraged hopes that peace will he assured, as, with the Pope’s support, it , could not fail.

UNITED IRELAND PARTY

INITIAL CAMPAIGN MEETING

(Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 17.

The United Ireland party opened its campaign at Thurles with a parade of the National Guard, Blue Shirts carrying the Free State tricolour in the presence of General O Duffy, Messrs Cosgrave, McDermott, and Dillon. The orderly crowd from six counties included many ex-servicemen. Dean Cashel wrote saying that he had finished with politics, because all must ''combine' to save the nation. General O’Duffy expressed the hope for a speedy national reunion, and said 'that the Republicans gave careful lip service to an ideal which they were careful not to fulfil, their methods of seeking peace being to plunge Ireland into an external quarrel. If Ireland could get rid of the bedlam generalissimo and incompetent staff, and material, it would he on the best way to win. The United party would lend farmers £2,009,000.