OUTLOOK IN IRELAND

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 310, 25 September 1918, Page 5

OUTLOOK IN IRELAND

GREAT POLITICAL ACTIVITY BY SINN FEIN NATIONALIST ELECTION PROSPECTS (Rec. September 24, 8.30 p.m.) London, September 23. "The Times" Irish correspondent writes: "Although arrests, and boycotts continue, the condition or Ireland has immeasurably improved under Viscount French's ■measures. The Sinn Feiners are dropping their policy of organised lawlessness and organising for tho next general election. They aro particularly canvassing women. Their campaign is supported by. ample funds, including an anti-con-scription fund of a quarter of a million. It is intendod to contest every .Nationalist The Nationalist Party's prospects aro most gloomy. Their organisation has gono to pieces,, snd they have no election funds. The Amorican subscriptions havo entirely ceased. The majority' of the Irish, fearing conscription, will vote for the Sinn Fein, which party is likely to gain fifty seats. The Nationalists are unlikoly to retain moro than twentyfive scats, and some predict only eleven. After tho election tho Sinn Foiners propose to hold' out till after the ppnre. conference, and meanwhile are adopting a policy of national sabotage. Members elected will not. go to Westminster, but will attempt to form an Irish Parlnimcnt, shrinking from violent conflict with the forces of the Crown, but dislocating the machinery of the law in every possible way. Overtures with Labour suggest that they are meditating tho ««> of the general strike warfare, and propose to take every means to make. Ireland ungovernable by tho British Parliament, which, they think, will bo glad to get rid of the Irish difficulty at any price." Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.