THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1922, Page 3

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLK ASSOCa-rUIN broken down. LONDON, May 17. .It wn s officially announced in the Dail Eii'eann that peace negotiations had broken down. wANOTHER LONDON CONFERENCE. LONDON, May 16. p Sir James' Craig states that no 1 not received any invitation to the proposed conference on Irish affairs, and hopes that he will not receive one. It is practically certain that Sir J. Craig will decline to come to London. Collins will be unable to attend owing to the pressure of his work in Dublin.

reprisal At funeral. LONDON, May 16.'

At the funeral of Beattie, a murder - Belfast policeman, a party of Sinn Feiners, without the least provocation, fired .into the mourners following the coffin. Several persons were shot anti the clergy had a narrow escape. W omen and children in the streets were ter-ror-stricken and fled, screaming, or ay in heaps on the ground. Military police guarding the funeral, turned and fired upon the attackers, who returned the fire. A man named Facklen who was concern in the firing was pursued by an infuriated mob into n shop, where he was shot dead.

SINN FETN RESOLUTIONS. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) LONDON. May 16. Sinn Fein Executive at Belfast pass- * ed a resolution on behalf of the perseelite dterorised minority of this city, calling on the Dail Eireann to forthwith establish a stable Government, declaring the conviction that the best means of acqhiring peace in Belfast is in the establishment of peace m the rest of Ireland, and also expressing the opinion that until the special police paid by the British Government are disbanded, or disarmed, there will not be peace, and condemning and deploring the rule of the gun for which the rule of the people, should be substituted.