IRISH AFFAIRS.
[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CARDINAL LUZIO. HIS MISSION IN IRELAND. LONDON, May \i The Australian Press Dublin correspondent, dealing with Cardinal Lujio’s mission, states he came to Ireland istensibly on an ecclesiastical mission, hut his real object was to discover a wav to peace. The Government fiein the first suspected Luzin of working in Republican interests. Nevertheless he undoubtedly tried Ins best to secure a cessation of hostilities to enable tho Republicans to save their face. He kept but of the limelight, but Government xvere xvcll informed of his xvork and knew ho xvas trying to bring the strongest ecclesiastical influence to bear on Cabinet to force it’s hand to accept something less than a complete surrender of Republicans. It xvas largely I.uzio’s representations xvbieli led De Valera to issue bis peace terms. Luzio almost succeeded in getting tho Republicans to surrender. From first to last the Government refused to hax’o anything to do with him. The correspondent adds that the mission xvas a hard one, the important result proving that ecclesiastical power in Ireland is nenrlv broken.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1923, Page 2
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181IRISH AFFAIRS. Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1923, Page 2
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