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Show IRISH 1 ST. LOUIS LEAVE OLDSOCIETY Believe Be Valero, Faction Is Hurting Cause of Eiln. ST. LOUIS. Nov. 1(5 (By the Asao- c-iatcd Pres."..) Plans for the formation forma-tion of an organisation with a neutral I policy toward the sitdatlon In Ireland I were under way here today following I the Withdrawal of the St Louis council coun-cil of the American Ass-x la! Ion for iio Recognition of the Irish Republic from the nationol association. 'Which lis said to be supporting Eamcnn de ! Valera in his campaign for an Irish republic. The locan branch, which has a Membership of 400.1. ls"out of harmony" har-mony" with the national organisation, according to M. J. Cull Inane, preSl- ! dent of the St. Louis council, and on Nevember 24 will rcorrranl.e under I the name of "The American Friends oi i of si mp rm . President Culllnane said that the majority of the members of the local branch are in favor of the Irnh Free state and are not In sympathy with the activities in America of Mrs. Muriel Mu-riel MacSwlney, widow of Tiroitce MaeSwitiev. former lord mayor of Cork, and pthei Irish figures demanding demand-ing a republic in Iroland. III HTS IRISH cause: He declared that the movement to repudiate the treaty creating the Free stale In Ireland, "is calculated to weak K the Irish cause In the eyes of the world," and that he considered the Free state a step toward the establishment es-tablishment of a republic later. U-added U-added that his advices Indicate a majority ma-jority of the people of Ireland favor the Irish Free state, and that tho treaty would be ratified by a plebiscite ple-biscite before Christmas. WOMEN FREED. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. The cues against Mrs. Muriel M ac Swlney and eight oth- r women, members of the American Association for Recognition of the Irish Republic, arrested ror nickeling the British embassy yester- day, wer,.. dismissed after a short I heating today by ITnited States Commissioner Com-missioner George H. MacUonald, because be-cause the proof did not "measure up to the Intent of the law." oo |