THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1921, Page 3

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

IIKUTIiIt S TF.I.BCUAM i. CRAIG HAS AN INTERVIEW. VARIOUS RUMOURS. (Received This Oily at 8 r,.m.) LONDON, Noe, .3

Sir J. Craig arrived in l.midot! t* li Saturday and unexpectedly was call d to Downing Street and Imd a lengthy interview with IL'iii l.lii.vd Go rge iiifd Mr Chamheriaiti. After two hmirit ihe discussion teas adjourned till the afterMoiiii,- Shortly after i ('.sumption Mr Wnrthingtiiii. I'oiiilfl Hml Sir R. Ilm iie were hurriedly ctilled, H" talk iastirig fur hours.

Craig stated later I have arianged. if and when Ulster’s interests are reached at the Conference that all Ulster's lopiosenlntives will he ask’d to attend. .Meantime nothing will he settled behind our hack. Sinn Kelliors intmedial"!y circulated the luiloniifg I'epi.v—Presumably Craig meiiiit that /is the British Governinetit was res]X)lisihlc tor the situation created by the Partition Act, it will consult himself and 11is cull,‘agues regarding a satisfactory means nf rectifying the blunder. The Conference will nt course, be confined to accredited representatives of British and Ipsli nations. It is now understood Sir It. Cntig in assuring ll,ul Lloyd George that he has the unqualified support ol the Ulster Cabinet, has adopted an UH,'onipromisiiig atlitude towards the suggestion made to him by the Premier and Mr l'■lutmberlitin. The meetings did not cause a crisis. It is r 'raided as a curious coincidence that Collins and Unify pibreedc 1 to .Dublin on Friday foi'' the purpose of interviewing Do Valera, and oilier t,'inters. ibis, followed bv yesterday’s proceedings at Downing Street, caused wild rumours that the Coiifereiice had dotiaitclv collapsed. It is not believed in informa--1 ivc circles timt tin- U tr'l", ibougli the sittmtiiui has regained t l ".’ oh strain of obscurity. Hon Lloyd George was due to proceed to ( hequeiS ( ouit mi Saturday, hut abandoned the visit. Further Cabinet meetings are being lieid to-iuiv ■

IRISH RAIDS. 1 Received This Dav at 10.1-3 a.m.l LONDON. Nov. li.

.Members of the Irish Republican Armv during tbe absence ol police, marched to West IniliskilU'n bavracks wiiere thev held up lour guards atld seized fifty rides, a quantify of bombs and ammunition and decamped in motor ears. Another raid against military liniments in Tipperary resulted m tbe removal of .thirty-four lilies, boxes ol bombs and ammunition. . Tli,. raiders cut, barbed wire round fttb huts Sind finding the rifles were ehaine.l they sawe<l through the , bains. A Ihifast message reports ill" Dali Eireann Minister of \grieulture bus ordered Sinn Fein members of tbe Conn eil of Agriculture, not fo attend meetings of that body, becnti'i' it is an appendage of an alien Government seeking to impose its will on die Irisli people. Feiiimauagli Ceuutv Gouncil terminated the Ulster Bank's tre i-iirership ~f its funds .because tlq, fiatlk "as amalgamated with an English Bank BOYCOTT EXTENDING.

'Received This Dav at 10. Li a.niA LONDON, Nov. I). A grave obstacle in the way ■ I peace is tlm boycott instituted in Ulster In months ago. which luls inteiislfed since tin- inice. “ It was originally iiithuded ns a renrisnl for exmdsioll liv Orangemen of Catholic workers from shipyards. and is.now regarded as an essential part of til,. Finn Fein cnnipai"ii. It. is enforced hv personal, threatening letters, posters and town efiers proclamations directed a"ttinst all traders and hanks I'l-om wlii'-li many have been conn idled to withdraw- money. The lioveott was formerly conlined to Relfast., but is now t-eine ext'-nd--,] to all six counties. lnuort“ in,. di"-i-«'asing to an alarming extent and tin* outlook for Belfast distributin' trade is the gloomiest.

A PRESS VIEW, iL-enived I’bis Dav at. 10.15 a.ic I

1 (IN DON. Nov. li. Tin' “Observer iloelares the priqiosed plebiscite is mil liinknhlc. It would shatter Cabinet and the Coalition to a cruel war. Ulster must work with til,, rest of Ireland. Six eeunlics laniiot lie -isolated with their forty per ,-cnt of Nationalists. Till’. CRISIS.

(Received This Day at 12.'-H p.m.) l.oNiniN'. N.ivcm! cr ii. Tlu-re seems no doubt that net Li..turns have arrivid at lit,. m"st c

tical .state P a-.-lied since tlm inieplii n ami the touch of a f'-aiher may ii i - vocnhly decide p--acc o. wa,. The cauls are . n the table b. ' v.cen -"•

Goveriiiiii-iit am! Sinn i-- in. Ul.-t r must now join the party and .1 -id her hand. The latest -b \ clooiim lit e-n only lie colljeelnla d. Ultra Union Imaki' no bones iitiout saving that ti’ - situation, at one stroke may hei un" even graver and more *■ii ti, I. Ill'' Craig has convinced the .'’ivmicr t!i t. the path to peace h-is||. s 'it', ditli ' ties, well nigh iiisunaoiiluable. |!y emit i ast the ministerially il informed "Sunday Times” is aim i bright and cheerful. Il says there is nothing more favourable to peace 'hi i the draft agreement which leu- bee i reached at the conference, eoiiteinpl iting immediate closer unity and idtii.'tely an Irish l’ai lianicnt with two j r. -- - vineial eoiilieils as well as lioundaiq | alterations. If I’lstor ennsetits, m* settlement is made. The latter pin me j however .dims the hrillianey of hop" I Everything hinges on the attitude 1 i the north. The pa;nq adds: "It • 1 ster refuses, the result will not lie ri'e eoereion of Ulster, neither coercion I - the south, at any rate not by the mi i , istry headed by Lloyd George. In ti-.' j event of a bleak a eonsiderable sectim .of Conservatives will join lorees wiGi the nil ra Unionists.