IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1922, Page 5

IRELAND.

GOVERNMENT’S ACTION ENDORSED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright London, Sept. 13. It is reported from Dublin that Mr. de Valera has conferred with the Com-mander-in-Chief, Mr. Mulcahy, who told ihim that there would be no peace until , arms were surrendered. At the meeting of the Dail Eireann, which carried a vote of confidence in Mr. Cosgrove, Mr. Johnson (Labor) condemned the action of the Government in imprisoning without trial hundreds of citizens for taking up arms. Mr. Hogan, Minister for Agriculture, declared that Nationalist troops had been too ready to take prisoners. Officers were shot with dum-dums in the Maryborough ambush, and immediately, the rebels put up their hands. The real cause of unemployment in Ireland was the deliberate destruction of the economic life of the country by men in arms against Parliament. Mr. Cosgrove, warmly defending the Government’s policy of repression, said the Government was right in striking when they did. “Our soldiers,” he eaid, “were eockshies for men behind walls and chimneys." The Dail Eireann adopted a resolution by 54 votes to 15 approving of the action by the Government to vindicate the authority of the Southern Irish Parliament. The Laborites formed the minority. Received Sept. 14, 7.50 p.m. London, Sept. 13. During the debate in the Dail Eireann, Mr. Cosgrave, justifying the actions of the Government, concluded: “If I were to meet my Supreme Judge five minutes hence, I would go hoping that, every action of my life was as well justified.”