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Show I ARMY DICTATORSHIP FEARED ! BY IRISH FREE STATE BACKERS, H Unruly Ones at Convention May Be Dropped From i Rolls; Notice in Sinn Fein Center Threatens Reprisals Against Protestants IIOVT0. March 27. (By tin-aaociMB6 tin-aaociMB6 I"itnv.) The Irish !ci State bill passed Its ihlrd and final reading in the Uouse of lord-' Unlay. DUBLIN'. Mardi 27. (By Th,e As-) soclated Press.) The convention Ofl Irish Republican army members, I which had been foi bidden by the Dail I Eireann cabinet, ended its lengthy session late Sunday night without ex j i elting any outward ikmonsi rat ion. The provisional Free State gi.eern-i gi.eern-i rpent made no attempt to Interfere ! lth the proceedings and has not dcfl- nltely stated It will tike any action j although it is generally supposed thai 3hose who attended will be treated as imving separated themselves from the I best of the army and their names may possibly be stricken from the E 1 army rolls The action of the convention In I unanimously adopting a resolution re- I affirming the delegates' allegiance to i I 1 1 the Irish republic met with strong ' condemnation among the supporters I of the Free State. The Irish Indc- E pendent today sftld: j CONTROL OF ARMY I "Many times in the past have our I people become divided In a crisis, when unity was essential. Today wo j I witness the same uncdifying. deplor- I able spectacle Disunion has h.en I forced on the country The! I resolution passed by the s.-i loi.a 1 I J convention amounts in effect to re-I re-I production of the Dall Eireann, yet I F-amon do Valera Insisted that tho I dall is the supreme authority in Ire-j I land. I "In all democrat lcally-rro erneil I countries, Including republics llkoi I France and America, the army Is strictly subject to tho control of civil I authority or the government for the I H timo being. Wherever departiin i I from that constitutional system have I taken place, grave events, sometimes I atnounting to establishment of u mill- tary dictatorship, have followed.' WRITER ARRESTED I The correspondent of the Freeman's I Journal at Charleville, County Cork. I has been arrested Apparently, i: a I the newspaper, the Irish r pnnhc an army authorities there were offended I by his report of an attempt to break! I up a pro-treatv meeting at Charleville. Charle-ville. The Freeman's Journal adds that while it takes no stand for special j II privileges for the press it considers; I the arrest part of a scheme by the' J "treaty wreckers" to stifle expression ' of public opinion and to Intimidate individual journalists LIFE FOR A LIFE. BELFAST. March 27. (By The Associated Press.) A notice pi I near the city hall In Dundulk. Count; 1 I Louth, a strong Sinn Fein center n r I the northern border of the free territory, calls attention to the ab" sence of any resolution by the mm-Catholic mm-Catholic body of County Louth II against murderous acts, and ca'li Hp-. Mm on the Protestants to "a t Imme-j L dlately, falling which we ore deter-, deter-, at mined to use the same means as they 1" in Belfast used to our fellow Catb-II Catb-II ollcf." "On and after March 29." II 1 j notice, "for every Catholic man woman, wom-an, boy, girl or child murdered or maltreated, so also shall the same quantity of helpers of the systematic, murder of our fellow Catholics meet the same, fate." The notice concludes "signed by order or-der of the silent, but sure messengers." messen-gers." 51 11 EN WORE KTL1 l i The l ister cabinet today accepted ! tho Invitation extended by Colonial Secretary Churchill to a conference In London of Irish leaders, clle 1 In view of tho disturbed conditions In Ireland. Deaths in the hospitals of two wounded persons Sunday night brought the total fatalities In tho disorders dis-orders of the week-end to seven, Ct h.i.ins RES I Mil 1 I DUBLIN. March 27. (By the Associated As-sociated Press. ) Before the announcement an-nouncement that Premier Sir James Craig of Flster had accepted the British government's Invitation to go to London had reached Dublin, Michael Mich-ael Collins, head of the provisional government, held a meeting of his I cabin it ministers, after which tho following fol-lowing statement was Issued: ' At the present moment it has not boon announced Whether Sir James Craig Intended to accept tho invitation of the British government But In any cuse Mr. Collins proposes lo travel trav-el to London with some of his colleagues col-leagues tonight an the firs', responsibility responsi-bility for the Northeastern situation rests with the British government. It is they who brought tho Belfast parliament par-liament into exislonco. It is they who have given It power and money, which It Is using In its campaign of wholesale murder and outrage against our co-religionists." |
