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Cosgrave and Centre Cruise Of The Hood Secret Shelter On
Parties Agree
GEN. O'DUFFY AS LEADER
(Air Mail Service)
Dublin, Sept. 5. Plans to form a united anti-De Valera party were advanced an important stage in Dublin to night, when
The Executives of Br. Cos grave's party and Mr. MacDer- mott's Centre party agreed to the proposed fusion of the op- position into a new United Ire- fand party.
(Spoola! Air-Mall' Service)
London, Sept. 12. H.M.S. Hood, which was recom- missioned at Portsmouth last week
by Captain F. T. B. Tower, OBE, for further service as flagship of Rear-Admiral W.-M. James, C.B. Commanding the Battle Cruiser Squardon, will leave to-day for Scottish waters. She will be work ing up at Rosyth, and will subse- quently rejoin the Home Fleet at Cromarty on September 25.
During October the Hood will visit two coast resorts, Banff, from the 11th to 17th, and North Ber wick, from the 17th to the 25th: after which she will return TO Rosyth, and will leave there with the rest of the Fleet on November
Gen. O'Duffy, who is proposed as leader of the new party, with Mr. Cosgrave as leader in the Dall, Is to meet the heads of the Cos-7 for southern ports. The new grave and Centre parties to-mor- commanding officer of the Hood, row to discuss final terms of the Captain Tower, was her first gun- fusion.
nery officer in 1918-20,-
The Cosgrave party, after a long meeting to-day, presided over by General Mr. Cosgrave, at which O'Dutty WAI present, announced their decision in the following
statement:
"Convinced that the nation's present calamitous condition of political ambiguity and rapid bound, is economic decline, is allowed to continue, to lead to a crisis of extreme gravity, and can be improved only by the aboution of differences among
COMMANDER OF THE FLEET.
East Coast
(Spécial Air-Mail Service)
London, Sept. 12. -Professor Einstein, the famous mathematician, has sought ahel- tr in 'England from Nazi threats. He arrived in London on Baturday night from his villa at Le Coq-sur- Mer, in Belgium, and stayed with his friend. Cmdr. Locker-Lamp- son.
Yesterday he was driven to a destination "on the Bast Coast, known only to a few people. "No palice precautions for his safety have been taken, but Comdr. Locker-Lampson has arranged for a private guard of friends, so that Prof. Einstein shall not be molest-
·ed." **
• His residence is a little wooden hut over-locking the North Sea. « Interviewed in company with Cmdr. Locker-Lampson, he declar- ed:****
our people and the adoption of battleship Malaya during the War, quietly working out my mathema-1
All I want 13 peace, and could have found a more peaceful re- Captain W. R. Patterson, pro- treat than here in England? At moted in the midsummer list, is Le Coq I was always guarded. It being succeeded as executive officer. was a terrible strain and a great of the Kent, flagship in China, responsibility to be put, on the by Commander J. W. Josselyn, who Belgian police. It interferred went to China in the spring as ob- with my work. served and meteorological officer My friend has invited me here. in the aircraft-carrier Eagle, and and I hope to stay in England for was also promoted in the list of a month. No one will know where
Commander Jösselyn June 30.
I am until October, when I go to served as a midshipman of the America to lecture. I can live and in 1924, following service in: the cruiser Durban on the China Station, he specialized as an air Here Cmdr. Locker-Lampion observer. He has served as such brake in: The professor is me
A in in the carriers Agrus, Furious, and dest, Re is engaged on
'new Courageous, and in 1929-31 was at mathematical theory." tached to the RAF. School of Prof. Einstein did not say what Naval Co-operation at Lee-on-the new theory was. He reiterated. Solent. He has lectured on meteo- | what had already been stated that rology and air navigation at the there was no reason why he should Royal United Service Institution. be singled out by the Nazis.
a clear and decisive programme of national action, we have agreed on behalf of our organt- sation to join in forming à unit- ed national organisation which all who wish Ireland to be one, free and great in spirit and achievement Cam work wholeheartedly together."
A convention of the party or- ganisation is to be held to consi- dér further detalls of the propos- ed" fusion. The Cosgrave party (Cumann nan Gaedheal) has 51. members; in the Dail
ROYAL MARINE PROMOTIONS.
tical problems.”
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EINSTEIN AND ARMY SERVICE
The voluntary retirement of Lieutenant-General EL A. H. "Jones Mr. MacDermott's Statement has caused a run of promotion in
Paris. the Royal Marine Corps which The following statement was is
According to the Paris "New affects several well-known officers. sued by Mr. MacDermott:
Major-General L. C. Lampen be-
York Herald". Professor Einstein "A proposal was submitted for comes a lleutenant-general at 55 fists in France and Belgium are no now expresses the view that pack- the merging of the National and on the thirty-sixth anniver Centre Party into a new organisary of his entry into the RMLLonger justified in refusing mili sation under the leadership of us second lleutenant. For his sertary service as a means
of pre Gen. O'Duffy, in which Mr. Cos-vices as a staff officer during the venting war in view of Germany's grave's party and the National War he was promoted to brevet
"public preparation for war." Guard..would also merge. The lieutenant-colonel and awarded the A Belgim anti-militärist had chairman of the party in the Orders of the Crown of Italy, third asked his opinion concerning two Dail would be Mr. Cosgrave, with class, and the Legion of Honour. Belgian conscientious objectors Mr. MacDermott as vice-presi- arth class.
who had gone on hunger strike dent.
Major-General R. D. Ormsby, rather than perform their military CBE is promoted to that rank service. The professor is stated to from the command of the Ply-have replied; mouth Division, with which he has "You will be greatly astonished been associated for 35 years. He by what I am going to tell you. A will be 54 next month. He qualed litle while ago it could be hoped as a naval staff officer in 1913, and to combat militarism in Europe during the late War served afcat successfully by individual refusal in command of R.M. contingents of military service. But to-day and Dillon as vice-presidents.in the battleship, Africa and the circumstances are entirely differ- Mr. MacDermott is understood to
ëruiser Courageous until his ap-lent, have the support of the eleven In- pointment in 1917 as D.A.Q.M.G. pf dependent and four
the Royal Marine Force in the Europe a State which is publicly
**There is Aegean Islands. He was Deputy preparing for war by every method The executive of the National | Assistant Adjutant-General
at Under these conditions, the Latin Guard ("Blue Shirts") also met R.M. Headquarters from 1921 to countries. especially France
and and discussed the proposed fusion. | 1920.
Belgium, are in a very great dan- General O'Duffy wis empowered, a" |-- committee with plenary powers to INTELLIGENCE DIVISION STAFF.ger, and their only hope is their
preparedness. consider the matter,
"The executive committee of the hew organisation would con- sist of twelve members, no minated in equal numbers by Gen. O'Duffy, Mr. Cosgrave, and Mr. MacDermott, together with Gen. O'Duffy as president, and Messrs. Cosgrave, MacDermott
members of the, Dail.
Farmers
It is believed that after a joint conference to-morrow a statement of policy will be presented to the
country.
All three parties are well or ganised, and -in the
event of amalgamation, a nation-wide or- ganisation could be in full work-
H
the centres of
- Commander P. N. Walter, who la "That is why I say frankly that absorbed from to-day in the estab-if I were a Belgian I would not lishment of the Naval Intelligence refuse milliary service in the pre- on the Division, was at Dartmouth College sent circumstances, pût, when the War began,, and went contrary, would accept it with to sea at the mobilization as mid- wholeheartedness and with a feel- shipman of the Queen, flagship of ing that I would be contributing Admiral Sir Cecil Thursby. In to the salvation of European civili-. 1916 he joined the new battleshipsation.” Royal Sovereign, and during the last year of hostilities he was sub- Heutenant of the destroyer Walrus.
ing order within a week,
Mr. Cosgrave interrupted his holiday at Connethard to attend to-day's discussions, and is not | In 1929 he obtained command of expected to leave Dublin again un-
the minesweeper Button and in 1930 of the destroyer Bomme in China; in which vessel and her successor the Wild Swan he served
BRITISH FLIER SHOT
BY ARABS
Cairo, Sept.
til á déïnife policy is adopted.
A De Valera Dictatorship?
for two years in the Far East and Heliopolis Tragedy Witnessed (Meanwhile Gen. O'Duffy, and the
was promoted in December, last:
By Fiancee National Guard are making elabo-Three of his term-mates at Os rate preparations for a surprise borne and Dartmouth in 1911-14) General Election. Their' omcial were made commanders at the A British airman. J. A. Howard, organ, the “Bine Flag,” which ap-
same time-C. P. Clarke, now on was fatally shot by an Arad-guis pears in Dublin as a typewritten the Tactical School staff: C. de S. man to day in the presence of his Fsheet, in place, of the "Blue Brock, late in command of sub-fiancee at Heliopoha,
Shirt" which was banned under marine L.18; and W. Agnew, now The couple were out walking when the Public Safety Act, hints at an in the Training and Staff Duties foul Arabs, two of whom were am. attempted De Valera dictatorship Division, Admiralty.. and even civil war.
The Journal prints some verses | headed "Shirts,” of which the fol-
lowing is an example:
“Oh, I'll have a new shirt,
A Blue Shirt, taboo shirt,
An anti-ballyhoo shirt,
LAUNCH OF THE LEITH.
Reuter.
ed, demanded money. The airman closed with the nearest Arab and seized. his revolver, but another shot The sloop Leith will be launched sporting gun.
him at point tank range with a at". Devonport Dockyard to-day
The girl, who was not molested, (September 12th) by Mrs. Ploon screamed for help, but the Arab wife of Rear-Admiral J. M. Pipon, ed. Later, three men were arrest It's just the thing for me" commanding the RN. Barracks, ed, one of whom was identified by The issue consists of ave, type-Devonport launched from the same written sheets, and explains that yard on July 19. When ready for the girl as one of the attackers,→ Owing to the attentions of the service next year they will proceed abroad, the Grimsby to relieve the police," and "delays inevitably 8580- clated with a change, we have Cornidower in China, and the Leith been unable to find a printer, The to relieve the Veronica in New 1931 will be of a new class,
Zealand
signed particularly for minesweep- "Blue" "Flag, however, will not be furled
These two sloops belong to the ing. They are named the Halcyon four of the much-delayed 1931 and Skipjack, after the old torpedo It is reported that twelve maak construction programme, but their gunboat minesweepers which ter ed and armed men last night visit-keels were not laid until February, ved during the War, and both are ed a farm at Derry, near Listowel, 1933. They are to be of 1,080 tops, building by Messrs. 1. Brown and seized one of the workmen named and of superior type to the Co., Ltd. Clydebank. Whereas the Conway, who is a member of the earlier sloops of the Shoreham Grimsby is the first ship of war in National Guard, and took him class, with 4.7in instead of in the Royal Navy to be called after some, miles into the hills. Some of us as these principal weapon, that port, the name of Leith has the party afterwards" returned to The other two sloops authorized in been borne by earlier ships since the house and burned Conway's way were mak4 1801, but there is no particular his- "blue" "hirt
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