Mr. Do Valera, at meetings in the South of Ireland
last week, openly avowed his determination to defeat the Treaty, whether the Irish electors favoured it or not. He declared in so many words that his Republican followers would " wade through Irish blood " to attain their ends, and would not hesitate to kill members of the Provisional Government. It becomes increasingly apparent, despite the smooth words of the Lord Chancellor and Mr. Churchill, that Mr. Griffith and Mr. Collins have no control over large sections of the Irish Republican Army and are afraid to challenge their armed opponents. They have prohibited the holding of an Army Convention on Sunday next for the purpose of declaring that the I.R.A. should be independent of Dail Eireann. But it is announced that the Convention will assemble in spite of them.
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