NEW REBEL PLOT.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1922, Page 5

NEW REBEL PLOT.

DISCOVERY IN IRELAND. TO OVERTHROW FREE STATE. FORCES CONCENTRATING. By Telegraph.—Press Aosn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 20, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 29. The Daily Chronicle’s Dublin correspondent states a plot to kidnap members of . Dail Eireann who acknowledge the Free State by taking seats has been discovered, object being to suppress Daily Eireann, so that there will be no Legislature, and to terminate the Provisional Government and usher in a republic. The Free State Government was apprised of the plan through a captured document, which was communicated to the deputies The plan provided for a republican movement from the country to reinforce the rebels in Dublin. This concentration has actually been progressing. The deputies accept the danger philosophically, pionting out that if only a dozen members are able to attend the new Dail a?.(.»• December 6, they could fix a new qv.'.in m. Mr. McNeill, speaking in Dail Eireann. referring to the executions, said all at present were under a sentence of death.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. PLIGHT OF DUBLIN PRESS. Received Nov. 30, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 29. The newspapers of Dublin are having a trying time. The Government has instituted a censorship, while the rebels are forwarding matter with directions that it must be published. PASSED BY THE COMMONS. London, November 29. The Ulster Parliament will reassemble immediately the British Parliament passes the Constitution Bill in order to contract out of the Free State. In the House of Commons the Irish Constitution and Consequential Bill was read a third time without a division.