The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1922-08-24
TO
SLAIN CHIEF IS
GRAVE PROBLEM
Dublin Has Not Yet Re-
covered From Shock of
the Death of Michael
Collins, Whose Body Is
Now In That City
Funeral Will Be Held
Next Monday

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Next Monday
Dublin, Aug 24.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press began to recov-
er somewhat today from the shock
caused by the dramatic death of
Michael Collins and plans went for
ward for the meeting of the new
southern parliament on Saturday,
when the ministerial changes neces-
STATED by the sudden removal Of Col
Inns and Arthur Griffith are expected
to be made.
Meanwhile William T. Cosgrove is
acting as the head of the provisional
Free State government and Richard
Mulcahy, as chief of staff, is directing
the final phase of the National Army s
campaign against the irregulars.
The absorbing question of who is to
succeed Collins is voiced on all sides
Cosgrave and Mulcahy, the names of
Kelvin O'Higgins, minister of econom-
ic affairs, Gen. O'Connell, assistant
chief of staff, and General Gerald
O'Sullivan are frequently mentioned
General Collins body reached Dub
lin by steamer today from Cork and
was met by an enormous number of
mourners, among whom were repre-
sentatives of the army, including
Chief of Staff Mulcahy.
The coffin, covered with Irish tri-
color, was placed upon a gun carriage
and, preceded by a band of pipers,
was taken in solemn procession along
the silent street to St. Vincent's hos
pital. The body will remain in the
mortuary of the hospital until tomor-
row when it will be removed to the
city hall to lie in state until Sunday
afternoon.
A solemn requium high mass will
be celebrated Monday morning in the
procathedral directly after which the
body will be conveyed to the famous
Glasnevin cemetery where Collins
buried his colleague Griffith only a
little more than a week ago.
Cut Short Peace Program
London, Aug 24.-(By the Associ-
ated Press)-At the time of his death
Michael Collins had under considera-
ton plans to redraft several sections
of the Irish Free State so as to pla-
cate the more radical republican ele-
ment. This was made known today
by Michael Francis Doyle, Philadel-
phia lawyer, who arrived from Dublin
where he went to consult with the
members Of the provisional govern
ment.
Mr.. Doyle was the last American.
he believes, to see the Free States
commander alive. He had sevral con-
frences with Collins, and on the day
before the latter went to the south
where he was fated to fall under
bullet, they went carefully over the
different points of the constitution
which it had been planned to redraft
These points were three in number.
The first concerned the taking of an
oath of allegiance to the King of Eng
land; the second concerned ratifica-
ton of governmental acts by the
British privy council, while the third
hinged upon the stipulation that the
powers of the Irish government shall
be derived from the treaty between
the Free State and England.
If these points could be arranged to
satisfy the Republican radicals, Cen
eral Collins believed there was pos
sibility of inducing the Irish people
as a whole to rally around the con-
stitution.
Mr.. Doyle has been asked by the
remaining Irish leaders to continue
his study of the constitution and may
return to Dublin with legal sugges-
tions.
Before leaving on his Inflated Jour-
ney General Collins announced that
Mr.. Doyle with Mccormick, the ia
nous tenor, were the guests of the
Irish leader at lunch in the Shell
burne hotel. Mr.. Mccormack is visit
ing his mother who lives near Dublin.
Michael Collins sudden removal
from the arena of Irish affairs is Civ
en- considerable space in the morning
newspapers. Naturally there is a
great effort to eulogize him, to de-
scribe his meteoric career and charac-
terize his personality as grave brav-
cry, than to look into the dark cloud
Of Ireland's immediate future.
The fact that, eight months after
the Anglo Irish treaty, was signed
only one of the Irish signatories re-
NAMED in power, with the other free
state ministers unknown quantities in
England, is emphasized by the Times
in support of its opinion that it is
impossible to regard the future with
out forebodings.
There are other leaders, says the
Times, but none who has caught the
Irish Imagination or who has COM
bined the advantages of military and
nnlifical lnadarahin in anch hiph do