PROBLEM IN IRELAND

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 276, 16 August 1920, Page 5

PROBLEM IN IRELAND

DOMINION HOME RULE PROPOSAL GOVERNMENT POLICY TO BE STATED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. August 15, 11.5 p.m.) London, August U. "Freeman's Journal" states that Mr. Bonar Law will make an important statement in the House of Commons on Monday with referenco to the application of Dominion Home Rule to Ireland. Ihe "Journal" believes that the Government contemplates tho abandonment ot both coercion and partition in Ireland.— Aus.-N.SS. Cable Assn. (Rec. August 15, 5.5 p.m.) . Dublin, August 13. n. t? . . Unionist Alliance repudiates the Dominion Homo Rule proposal on the ground that it means the creation of an independent Irish Republic or civil war. —Aus.-JJ.55. Cable Ai-sn. ARMED RAIDERS ACTIVE. (Rec. August 15, 5.5 p.m.) London, August 14. Fifty armed men in rowings boats stopped a flotilla of petrol-laden boats at Carrick-on-Shannon, and captured *he entiro cargo of 1400 gallons. The Lord Mayor of Cork and other Sinn Feiners arrested in tho military raid on Cork City Hall will be court-martialled, and possibly deported. A number of hunger-striking prisoners havo been removed to Great Britain. Armed raiders captured mails belonging to the Viceroy and the military authorities in Dublin.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.