IRISH AFFAIRS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 February 1923, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS.

• CBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. i LONDON", February 18. Tiie “Observer's” Dublin correspondent says importance is attached to two captured letters from Mary MeSwU nev to de Valera which indicate a split * on some important question. One letter says “I believe your proposed action ruinous. Forgive me for speaking ■ my mind plainly, but Ireland comes first.” ; The second letter refers to the Detisv debacle and expresses a fear that further similar incidents will follow. TRUCE PROPOSED. LONDON, February 18. A proposal for a month’s truce in [ »>rdcr to enable peace negotieation.s to be conducted in a favourable atmosphere has been addressed to the , Heads of the Free State and loaders cf ; the Irregulars by an association of , neutral members of the old Republican ! Army claiming to represent twenty | thousand men, as an outcome of the rc- ! cent peace convent ion held in Dubl'n. Suggested conditions include the susj pension of all military activities, acts j of aggression ntrin.-t public and private j persons and property hv Republicans, suspension of all Free State activities, arrests trials and executions. The peace makers reqivst replies hv the •2-'ird with an immediate cessation of acts of aggression. They offer to nominate a neutral chairman for the peace i conference to which they would submit ; proposals as the basis 0 f negotiations. J Tlic association appeals for the active ; support of the people ami public bodies throughout Ireland.