IRISH AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1924, Page 3

IRISH AFFAIRS

[Reuters Telecitiams.] ARMS IN BELFAST. LONDON, Sep. 20. The police made a raid on an unoccupied house in Belfast. They discovered a machine gun, a quantity of bombs and rifles, and thousands of rounds of ammunition, which they seized. “ MOBNINfi ROST” VERSION. LONDON, Sen. 20. The “ -Morning Rost ” Dublin correspondent says: ‘‘Residents of the Northern Border territory are openly discussing the imminence of bloodshed. The people pushing for strife are secret soeieites, hut both the sober-minded Free State and Mr Be Valera, representing the Republicans, condemn any “ mad clog ” policy whic h proposes to infuriate Ulster by insisting on its coercion, and then repudiate the finding of the Boundary Commission if Ulster were not dismembered. The secret societies, however, do not realise that a bloody game may be successful once, hut not twice. A fall in llic l‘ rce .State national loan is an indication of dread in well-informed quarters.

KBKK STATE 'VIEW. (Received tHs day at 10.25 a.m.) (LONDON. Sept. 22. Krucst Blythe (Free State Minister of Finance) in a speech at Clones, contended the right of self-determination should he given the Nationalist minority in six countries, as it is given to tile anti-Xationali.st minority in IreCJaml. The lllitisli Cloveriinieiit since - the Treaty had given the Free Slate a square deal, and he believed that as regards the boundary, they would get a square deal, despite the bitter, !e stile campaign at present being <"iicli.cled in Britain. Regarding the suggestion that Craig and Cosgrave sln u'd meet agniu, Bl.vthe said that in c iew of the Northern leader’s altitude of ‘•what we have we will hold.” any lurther negotiations will be a sheer waste of time.