THE IRISH PROBLEM
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION EXECUTIONS IN DUBBIN. LONDON. Nov JO. It is officially announced there were three executions in Dublin to-day. imperial conference LONDON, Nov 30. Replying to a question in the Commons Mr Bonar Law saidl he it might be convenient to hold the Imperial Conference next year, i citations will bo issued, but one would lx, extended to the Irish Free State. REBELS MAD ACTION. T ONDON, November 30. Armed men held up a Dublin train near Cork, and ordered the passengers and crew to leave.* They set fire to the last conch, a.ul then set the engine nt full speed. The train ran two miles burning fiercely, till the fire released the vacuum brake and brought it to a standstill. This outrage is part of a rebel campaign for the destruction of all communications with the object cl isolating Dublin. Traffic to the north and west is impeded in consequence of tlic* destruction of Multyfnrnhnm railway bridge.
ENGLISH POLITICS. LONDON, November 30. Lord Cave, replying in the House of ■Lords, wild lie was sure the Irish Government meant to be fair to all <‘itizens, lmt if occasion arose he was ccriain 'the British Government was bound to render it the utmost assistance. Lord Middleton (Unionist) said the Irish Constitution violated every promise to Southern Irish Unionists, includin'! Parliamentary protection. He said he never knew a man to be so startled as Mr Lloyd George when it was pointed out all these pledges were ignored. Lord Selbonrne said the Irish question would be as acutely present to our great grand children as it had been to our grandfathers. The Irish Free State Constitution was a reckless gamble with happiness. An alternative was the rcconquest, which would result in a more bitter and more hopeless Ireland than ever. He was impressed, however, by an entire absence ol support of the former English policy among the Dominion Governments which cordially sympathised with the step now taken. The Southern Unionists should lie enabled to remove their homos elsewhere, if they wished Ireland's safety. •
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1922, Page 3
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