IRISH AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1923, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. VIEW OF ULSTER LEADER. LONDON. July <L Sir James Craig, Premier of l Rter, interviewed by the “ Daily Express, regretted curtain statements made by Mr Healey in tin* course of his interview. Mr Iloaley, he said, bad criticised the detention of between JOO and 100 Free. Staters by tbe Ulster Government', ami the refu-al to appoint an l ister member on the boundary commission. Mr Healey had claimed that, it Ulster would not appoint a representative, the Free State and Imperial Government representatives should he appointed, if only to consider the situation. Sir James Craig said:—"l do not think it proper for me to enter into a controversy with the King's roprelative, but I do say this: Ulster has readied a stage of peace and prosperity ami woe betide any man, whatever his position, who, by recrimination or by re-railing old disputes, stirs up trouble and creates once more a state of chaos m that part of the- British Empire which desires to remain under the King's constitution. A high official of tho Ulster Government said that Sir .fumes Craig was not a parts to the boundary commission, and so could not be accused ot breaking any agreement. Sir James Craig had -tatiul, in Die Northern Parliament, that he did not propose to appoint a representative of Ulster on the boundary commission. He would be within his rights in so doing. ''Regarding the interned persons, they have the rigid of appeal, hut none has done so. They know that evidence could be produced to justify the hanging of many of them for murder.”