THE IRISH PROBLEM

Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1922, Page 2

THE IRISH PROBLEM

IS ULSTER DISLOYAL 10 VICEROY? REUTER’S TELEGRAMS. LONDON, March 15. Sir James Craig speaking in the Ulster Parliament, declared that the Derry murderers were reprieved over the : Isier Government’s head Sir James Craig added: “If there is further interference with the courts by th** . iceroy, I shall resign.”

LORDS DEBATE IRISH BILL. LONDON, March 15,

In the House of Loros, Viscount Peel moved the secoiid reading of the Irish Treaty Bill. He sSid tllttt lie 1 bought the delay decided oii by Siiiii Fein in the holding of the Irish Elections, has had many advantages.- A How, steady movement had ariseif, lie said, among the Irish people against Mr de Valera in favour of the Treaty,'. Lord Lansdowne said he thought the Bill tampered with the very foundations of the constitutional system. He was unrepentant Unionist, yet ealised that the rejection of this Bill world extinguish the only ray of illumination on a; melancholy horizon. Th e Government was riding for a fall over the question of the Ulster boundary. l ord Haldane said that- he believed the only alternative to this Treaty was a. civil war ill Ireland, costing endles* blood arid treasure. The debate was adjourned.