The evening world., 1922-03-22
De VALERA AID ANNOUNCES
OPEN REVOLT IN IRISH ARMY
AGAINST FREE STATE RUIZ
''Iou May Call Us Mutineers,"
COmmandant Declares as
He Tells Convention Plan
to Name Republican Chief.
''No Government Now to
Which We Owe Ale
glance" Says Leader - Sc
cret Session DefieS Order.

LONDON. March % (Assoeiated
PresO.-The British Government
may have to consider whether Il will
be possible TO draw a Gordon Of i'm
periaI troops between the warning ele-
nents on the Ulster frontier, Win
ston Churchill, the Colonial Score.
tary, stated in the House OF Commons
to- day.
DUBLIN. March 80 (Associated
PresD 1t was officially announced
in the Republican organ here to-day
that the Irish Republican Army Con
vcntion. the holding OF which was re-
Gently forbidden by Arthur Grih1th.
President of the Dali Eirennn, will be
held in Dublin Sunday as arranged
This announcement is taken here to
mean that a definite split in the Re
publican Army has come
According to Commandant O'Con-
nor, director Of engineering OF the
Headquarters staff OF the Irish Re
publican Army, so per cent. OF the
armys members believe the army has
been ''lC' down and that the Dali
Eireann has been false to the Repub-
hCan oath by agreeing to accept the
inclusion or Ireland within the Brit
ish Empire
The newspaper men were invited
this morning to the Republican Pub
hclty Department, where they were
received by COmmandant O'Connor
Discussing the army convention the
Commandant pointed out il had been
originally summoned with the ap-
proval OF Richard Mulcahy, now
Minister uf Defense in the Dali Cab
met The delegates, he said, had
been selected 10y companies and mum
bcrcd about 500
\ resolution would be submitted 10
tn" convention, said O'COnnOr renew
ing allegiance to the Irish Republic
and establishing an Executive entitled
to issue orders TO the Irish Repub-
uran Army, which would then re-
pudIltc control by tic Dali.
''You may, it you like, call us mu-
unc.rs," added O'Connor, but the
rank ana file is always right. II is
tho leaders who have failed"
llr said there was no Government
in ireland az present to which the
'urmy owed allegiance.
O'Connor sad the intention was to
restore TO the army its old volunteer
constitution, under which II elected
is own Executive. The constitution
was abandoned when the Dali Eireann
vas established as the Republican
Government and the army swore al
.lcganC" 10 1t as such.
NuICahy, declared O'Connor, had
pledged himself in the Dali to main
t"jn the army as a republican organ
Llt.on, hn' tho pledge had been vto-
larnd hr th" invitations given 10 tho
w'mhor, Of the army 10 form the
u.n.,"s u. the Army OF the Free
state .Hl.H. O'tpnnor dCClare red. sub
yortod the republic.
O'Corror DESERT bed as deserters the
mon who HAD left the Republican
Arwy 'or the Free state Army. He
charged that the British Army. dur
lag thc Limerick difculty, had as
sisted the Provisional Government
and hc lneFed thene had been inter-
ference with the Republican Army by
tho Provisional Administration.
IA proof ~ the latter charge. ne
~.to3 the fact that Michael ColTnA,
.e bond OF tho Provisional Govern
.n0, hnt been able 10 make good his
.-..nnrr 90 Winston Churchill. the
.'.n~Hl Secretary, OF the release Of
f.r '...nr l'n|0DIsl hostages In Re
publican Arm. custody,
O'Cunror said no thought She
maiutanRncs q tia RAnubiLeGn AsnR