Ireland

General Richard Mulcahy, Free State Minister of Defense, introduced a bill into the Dail Eireann authorizing compensation to men wounded in the three periods of fighting in Southern Ireland. The three periods:

1) Easter rising of 1916.

2) Anglo-Irish struggle, January, 1919, to December, 1921, terminated by establishment of Free State.

3) Struggle between Republicans and Free Staters, December, 1921, to June, 1923.

De Valera, Chief of the Republican Party, is reported to have left his secret hiding place and to be taking part in a verbal agitation for the Irish Republic. General Mulcahy, asked what will happen to De Valera if he shows his nose, answered laconically: "Wait and see."