THE IRISH PROBLEM.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1922, Page 2

THE IRISH PROBLEM.

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ULSTER WAR ON I.R.A. LONDON, May 23. The Ulster Premier, s ir James Craig in his promised speech, announced in the Northern Parliament that the Irish Republican Army had boon proclaimed by Ulster as an illegal assembly. SINN FEIN’S UNUBD. LONDON, May 23. A meeting has been held of the High Council of the Ardfheis, the head Sinn Fein organisation. Mr E. de Valera presided. Mr de Valera moved the adoption of the agreement he has made with Mr Michael Collins. Mr Collins seconded the motion. He said that the position in the North of Ireland was one of the causes which has brought about this agreement. Their first duty, he said, was the restoration of order in the wholo country. “Some have declared”, he added, “that the agreement would endanger the treaty, but if the restoration of order did endanger the treaty, it would at any rate enable us to face any new situation.” The motion was carried with only lour dissentients. M YNY ARRESTS IN NATIONALIST COUNTIES. LONDON, May 23. The arrested Si nn Feiners include 300 men in County Tyrone (where there is a Nationalist majority), in Belfast. At Belfast the numbers would have been larger, but the Sinn Feiners fled.