Irish Government Is Narrowly Saved
CRITICAL BY-ELECTION
WAR MADE ON TERRORISM
(United P.A.-—By Telegraph — Copyright) I Australian and N.Z. Press Association) (United Service) Reed. 9 a.m. LONDON, Friday. In view of Mr. W. T. Cosgrave’s slender majority in the Dail and of the important issue at stake, the fate of the Irish Free State Government was considered to depend upon the result of the North Dublin by-election, in which Dr. Thomas O’Higgins, Government candidate, polled 28,400 votes, and Mr. Oscar Traynor (de Valera Party), 25.276 votes. A recount was ordered and resulted: O’Higgins 28,445 Traynor i* . . 28,394 The Government made the suppression of terrorism the major issue. It asked for a mandate to crush lawlessness. Dr. O’Higgins is a brother of the murdered Minister, Mr. Kevin O’Higgins. The Government issued an extract from a document found in possession of one of the men arrested in the recent raid. This says: “We must devote all our energies to destroying Ministers and their property. We must train our members to use firearms, bombs and mines to blow up theatres and cinemas.” The police last week detained 150 persons in the hope of securing the ringleaders.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 614, 16 March 1929, Page 9
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193Irish Government Is Narrowly Saved Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 614, 16 March 1929, Page 9
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