General O'Duffy reports that the Army position is normal, that conditions generally are satisfactory, and that discipline is being maintained. Munitions which were removed from two barracks in the Dublin Command have been returned. I have to make a reservation, however, with regard to that: that complete checking has not yet been finished. There is a question of doubt with regard to one particular instrument. The total number of officers involved in the affair generally, according to the latest information furnished to me, is something under 100. The number of resignations is somewhere about forty, and the number of officers who have absented themselves from their posts is about fifty. A complete list has not yet been furnished to the Executive Council on this point. I should say that what has happened down in Leitrim, with regard to the apprehending of a man named Keegan, supports the claim that normal conditions are the rule down there, as is evidenced by the fact of this man's arrest. There are few people in the country who have given a greater amount of trouble, and many attempts have been made up to this to apprehend him. I much regret the death of an officer in connection with that affair.
I have no further information with regard to the Cobh incident, but the work of tracing and apprehending the perpetrators is going ahead, and quite a number of reports has been received and information furnished. There has been a general desire, as far as the information placed before me is concerned, on the part of every person, to assist in tracing the perpetrators, of that very foul deed, but I have nothing further to say with regard to any real success in tracing the perpetrators.
