WILD TIMES IN DUBLIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 606, 7 March 1929, Page 9

WILD TIMES IN DUBLIN

SWIFT ARRESTS MADE RIOTOUS PARTY IN GAOL Times Cable LONDON, Wednesday. The arrests of 39 young men living in Dublin and the suburbs followed, with dramatic swiftness, Mr. W. T. Cosgrave’s pronouncement last evening.

The police planned their coup for the small hours of this morning. They raided various houses before dawn after a night of active preparation. All the arrested men were in bed when the police arrived. They were ordered to dress and then were hurried to Bidewell Gaol under close guard. Fourteen of the men were released later in the morning. The remainder of the prisoners were very lively, and the police had a strenuous time. There were many broken windows in the gaol, and the prisoners will probably he charged with damaging Government property in addition to other charges, the nature of which has not yet been revealed.

The prisoners’ friends and relatives besieged the gaol, outside which they sang and shouted, the arrested men joining in the noise.

PUBLIC SAFETY BILL

The Dublin correspondent of the “Dally News” expresses the opinion that if the North Dublin by-election results unfavourably to the Government, the Public Safety Bill, which expired in December, will be introduced again. If it should be defeated the next general election will be fought on the public safety issue. Frank Fahy, one of Eamonn de Valera’s lieutenants, declares that he and his friends do not sympathise with the methods of assassination, hut that violence is likely to continue as long as the members of the Dail are required to take the oath of allegiance to a foreign King. The horrible deeds of secret organisations, he says, are likely to continue until every .section has free entry to the Dail.