THE IRISH DEADLOCK

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3082, 12 May 1917, Page 9

THE IRISH DEADLOCK

CONTROVERSY OVER A MANIFESTO UNIONIST CONTENTIONS' London, May 10. Irish members of the Houso of Com. lemons are perturbed by the clerical t? manifesto. Unionists point out that all the Protestant bishops are outside Ulster, and that, no Presbyterians, Methodists, or Congregationalists signed it. Unionists recall the action of the Roman Catholic bishops in 1916, which destroyed Mr. Lloyd George's proposals after they had been accepted by the Nationalist Convention at Belfast. There is a general 'impression that the manifesto will help the Sum Feiners and make the task of Mr. Redmond most difficult. Unionists insist that they have already made two great concessions, first in not further opposing Home Rule, and, second, in surrendering three out of nine of the Ulster counties; " whereas thus far the Home Rulers have conceded'nothing.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [The Dublin correspondent of the "Times" reported on May 8 that a manifesto has been issued, signed by eighteen Roman Catholic bishops and others, appealing to the Irish to support their protest against any temporary or permanent partition of Iraland.] A SINN FEIN M.P. RESULT OF SOUTH LONGFORD BY-ELECTION'. London, May 10. The by-election' for the South Longford scat resulted as follows:— M'Guinness (Sinn Fein) ...... 1498 M'Kenna (Nationalist) ...... 1461 ; —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [South Longford, Ireland, has returned a Nationalist unopposed at every election since 1895.]