22 MARCH 1924, Page 2

Last week we expressed our fear that President Cosgrave had

made a dangerous concession to the mutineers in Ireland. The papers of Thursday morning confirmed this fear. General Mulcahy, the Free State Minister of Defence, has resigned in protest. It was announced in the Dail that the Government had called for the resig- nations of Major-General O'Sullivan, Adjutant-General ; Major-General MacMahon, Chief of Staff ; and Lieut.- General O'Muirthile, Quartermaster-General. This was a sequel to the siege of a Dublin public-house, where a number of the officers who had mutinied were captured. President Cosgrave had offered to put the officers on parole, but the heads of the army disregarded the President's policy.