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Hokitika Guardian, 23 March 1922, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

r„Y TELEGRAPH-FEU press association] I.R.A. ATTACKS. LONDON, March 21. . A large force of I.R.A. attacked Royalists houses in Tyrone near the frontier. Two houses were ibum d down. The raiders attacked Glcndean Ledge in Trillick whose °“ u P J ° r organised a defence beating off the raiders hut his servant who was a special policeman, was riddled with bullets. ULSTER PARLIAMENT. LONDON March 21. In moving the second reading of the special Powers Bill m • parliament at Belfast Mr McGuw (M - ister of Home Affairs) said, the I. A Republican Army was inactive in U 1 until 1 the truce, after which according to capture documents, a whole battalion i w Cro raised arid eitnipped in a single .district betwedii September nfid December. The truce was utilised to oi- ' ganise the army, with a view to overthrowing the Northern Government.

FREE STATE BILL

DEBATE IN LORDS,

LONDON, March 21. In the House of Lords, on a motion to consider the Irish Free State Bill in Committee, Lord Salisbury appealed to Government to allow some amendments to be made m this Bill. ■ would, he claimed, be remmnng guities nd improving the Bill, the principles of the IrishTrea . • Lord Peel pointed out that if . modifications of the Treaty were introduced, the-other party _ to the port could claim the same right If, sa.a lord Peel, members desired the government, it was Ope In do so. He said he would ilo - c yt any ameiiimeflt Jlfcctmg c ' r trf aw™ -a *"> r w T v ; Bi «„ of ‘hnnannd^ ments, tor ho vMI ttovertlemuddled, unreadable B,IL less he said they proposed to colli in the .lohate in the Honae of Lord, on the to* Bi'l. Cor.l moved an amendment (to I W with the decision of tilt Lister darv Commission. .... Lord Birkenhead replied tlm JXi nested that there was any orie hacl su relating to ambiguity bbout tno c Col . the boundary, until Mi - commission dealing with a t . H territory was quite ano 1 ' ha i r _ did not doubt that a competent cha r man would be appointed, who would reneh the same conclusion. H • S Lord Carson's amendment would destroy the whole Treaty. , •tr rpj le debate was adjourned. , r I