TIE IRISH PROBLEM

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1921, Page 3

TIE IRISH PROBLEM

UrSriiAl.IAN AND N.Z. CAIII.E ASSOCIATION

ULSTER SECURING AFTOMONY. LONDON, Nov. 12. \ cazette prescribes November 22nd for the handing over to the Ulster 1 arliamcnt of excutive powers under tin Government of In,land Act LONDON PRESS (tttSSIl . LONDON, Nov 12.

The London newspapers are of the I opinion that despite the Lister Cabin,.Us refusal to enter into any joint discussion, the last word has by no means been said by either sale. I hey j stil te Unionists in Belfast support Sir .las Craig’s attitude, believing that Sinn Fein will make every effort to sonee/.e out the Northern Bail,anient, while Fn.dand will no longer have power to interfere. The papers say mm line of possible progress ,s a relieve, discussion regarding the linking o a. Council of Ireland, and the possibility of ojvino this Council a Dominion Status? This was the point front which the compromise scheme started. lIMr Llovd George insists on cutting l Isti i adrift from the United Kingdom, l Isler is likely to demand Dominion Home Buie for herself. n STUB’S DF.TRHMINAIION. LONDON, Nor. 12. AD’ Llovd Oeorge, Lord Birkenhead, Si,- H. Greenwood, Mr AVorthingtonTlvnns. Sir IK Horne, Air Churchill, and Sir IK Howard. (Cabinet Ministers) discussed Sir .1 Craig's Ulster iv plv for two hours this morning. They also consulted Hie Viceroy of Ireland, lord Fizalan. They decided that lister’s proposals are regarded as being dually as unacceptable to the Cabinet as Sinn Fein's. Tfie Ulster ministers have returned to Belfast. , , TTI . Colonel Spender (secretary to 1, later Ministers) stated that Sir .las Craig haul opposed any negotiations. He d<*niandod tlio simnltanoons publication ot tho (Jovernmcnt’s and Ulster’s proposals. , » .Mr 'Milne Barfrour (Ulster Minister of Finance), on arrival in Belfast, ■dated the onlv acceptable dominion status would ho to treat Ulster as a separate entity. Tie said they could not. agree to extending any more ndvixntaocous terms in Sinn Fein than Ulster had received. The Northern Cabinet, lie said, was unanimous in its determination that jienco can not be obtained at the expense of Lister s administrative territorial rights.

A HOLD-TIB. 1 (Received This Day at 11.30 a.in.) ! LONDON, Nov. 13. | One hundred and fifty armed Sinn ! Feiners held up two police officers motoring in the vicinity of Belfast. The , police fired wounding one. The police escaped, hut the motor ear was riddled with luillets^^^^^^^^^^^