A JOURNALIST'S VIEW

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2778, 24 May 1916, Page 5

A JOURNALIST'S VIEW

SEVEN CONTRIBUTORY CAUSES. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Sorvices.) London, May 22. Mr. H. W. Massingham, editor of tho "Nation," writing in that journal, says: —"Tho Dublin rising was due, in my opinion, to. firstly, the formation of tho Coalition Government and tho hitter's resort to conscription; secondly, tho pin. prick policy of compromise and twisti the disarmament of the volunteers would have been a bold blow to their organisa•*ion; thirdly, tho English administration

concerning absenteeism, and Mr. John Redmond's absorption by the English isida of the Nationalist movement; fourthly, the gradual loss of the finer idealism'of the Sinn Fein and the absorption of the Fenian spirit; fifthly, the temptation the war offered the old revolutionariest sixthly, the resentment caused by the so. verily in the suppression l of the Dublin 6trikbsj seventhly, Ulster's resort'to fores when Ireland was settling down to its abandonment." MR. ASQUITH'S RETURN STATEMENT ON THUKSDAT. London, May 22. Mr. Asquith was welcomed by many questions in the House on his return from Ireland. He will continue the Irish negotiations. He has consulted Mr. John Redmond, Mr. Lloyd George, and Sir Her. Bert Samuel. This • statement regarding Ireland 'has been "postponed until Thursday, to cuablo Cabinet to review it. DEATH SENTENCES COMMUTED (Tlec. May 23, 11.5 p.m.) London, May 23. Two death sentences on Dublin rebels have been commuted to imprisonment for life. Seven others were sentenced to terms ranging from a year to ten years* imprisonment.