Foreign News: Mulcahy

Free State troops by night, on the orders of Defense Minister General Richard Mulcahy, surrounded a Dublin saloon, captured 40 officers, among whom was thought to be Maj.-Gen. Tobin. (General Tobin had led an army "mutiny" against General Mulcahy's plans for demobilization). But General Tobin was not among the officers captured. The grim laugh was on General Mulcahy and he resigned. His place was filled by Home Minister Kevin O'Higgins acting for President Cosgrave who is ill. The problem of demobilizing the Free State army, thereby ousting patriotic soldiers from their jobs, remained...

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