The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-11
Griffith's New Cabinet Begins to
Function as Government.
Evacuation of Dublin by British
Now Being Hurried.
POLITICAL AMNESTY DELAYED
Free Prisoners After Farley
With Dali Committee.
Parliament Urged to Hurry Au-
thOrity for New Status.

Dublin, Jan. 1.-THE new Irish cab
met selected by President Arthur Grit
fifth began to function today. Com
munications were exchanged with Lon
don and It is expected that the Grif-
fifth ministry-the provisional govern
ment of all Ireland outside of Ulster
will receive full administrative pow
er from the British within the next
week or ten days The Dali Eireann
has adjourned until the middle of
February.
Dublin Evacuation Started.
The evacuation of Dublin by the
swing today while the new provisional
government of President Arthur Grif-
fifth began to function.
English soldiers began leaving the
Dublin barracks and it was reported
they would be taken on board a troop
ship tonight or tomorrow.
Officers at Dublin castle have be-
gun to ship the archives to London.
Huge cases of documents, bearing for
the most part upon military activities
against the Sim Fein in the past,
were carted from the castle under es-
cort. They were taken on shipboard
for removal to English soil.
Crowds gathered and cheered as the
signs of English occupation" began
to disappear.
The British military forces were to-
day ordered to evacuate Cork. LINER
Ballyncollirg. Large stores of equip
ment are being removed. The black
and tan police are already leaving.
President Griffith had summoned
the southern parliament to meet Sat-
urday to affirm Dali Eireann's ratifi-
cation of the Irish treaty.
Will Delay Amnesty.
London, Jan. 1.-THE British COM
mission on Irish affairs headed by
decided this afternoon to hold up the
question of general amnesty in Ire
land pending a conference with a COM
mittee from Dali Eireann.
1t had been reported earlier in the
day that general amnesty had been
agreed upon and that the Irish pris-
oners would probably be released to-
night, including many under death
sentences.
The Westminster Gazette calls upon
the British government to assemble
parliament as soon as possible, next
week at the latest, to give formal au-
thority to the new Irish government.
The newspaper calls attention to the
anomalous position of Arthur Grif-
fith's provisional government until it
receives this authority and says the
imperial parliament should fulfill its
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thru quickly.
Free State Is Shadow.
''The free state with It's provisional
government is at present an even more
shadowy entity than was the Irish re-
public" the newspaper says.
There is urgent necessity to give it
definite legal status, particularly with
reference to maintenance of order.
collection CT taxes and expenditure of
ntIhliR fe q
whole legal system will be reduced to
chaos, the executive acts of every
member of The provisional government
will be Illegal and judges before whom
such acts may be challenged will be
obliged to treat them as illegal.
Some sort of order may be main
tanned by direct physical force, but
Ct rtainly there can be no law until
the provisional government itself is a
lawful authority"