THE IRISH REBELLION.
GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND. I IRISH CABINET FORESHADOWED ! Unit*d Press Association. { London,May '2O. Advices from Ireland suggest ' that Mr Asquith is discussing the formation of an Executive Council, with wide administrative powers sitting in Dublin as an Irish Cabinet, but not possessing- powers to enact legislation or impose new taxation. The opinion of the Irish leaders will be sought before Tuesday. Mr Asquith visited the King and gave an account of his Irish mission. Lord Wimborne is coming to London. It is understood that his resignation has not yet been accepted. | The Manchester Guardian says that Mr Asquith has found the Ulstermen stubborn, but he hopes they will cooperate to bring about a settlement.
MR BIRRELL'3 REPORT. ANTI-BRITISH HATRED. SINN FEINISM AND THE PRIESTS London, May 19. Mr Birrell remarked that anti-Brit-ish hatred and distrust were always noticeable at all places and amongst all classes in a varying degree, but it was ever present as a background to Irish politics. The character of this feeling was hard to define but easy to discern, though it was incapable exact measurement. Mr Bi' - rell excused his continued absence from Dublin as being due to the necessity of attending Cabinet when deliberating on Ireland. He was astonished at the court saying a jackdaw or magpie could have done as well, but he admitted that he ought to have used his powers to atop the landing of arms. The moment of greatest risk was on the outbreak.of war, when it might have been necessary to mobilise 60,000 soldiers to keep down Ireland, but Mr Redmond's speech averted danger. Questioned whether he had special warnings of the trouble, Mr Birrell said: The constabulary reports enable us to form a correct estimate of each locality and these vary much according to the character of the priests. If the priests are anti-Sinn Feiners, Sinn Feinism dies out. If the clergy foster Sinn Feinism it is promoted and extended. He did not care to say how many turbulent priests there were, but there were a considerable number.
PRESS COMMENT. (Received 9.5 a.m.) ' London, May 21. The Observer comments on the possibilities of a successful resumption of the Irish Conference held at Buckingham Palace, in 1914. Settlement by consent would mean the best day in Ireland's history. It is believed that the Nationalists nro prepared to make larger concessions, perhaps to the extent of provisionally excluding all Ulster in return for immediate Hume Rule for the rest of Ireland, combined with some arrangement with Ulster for the management of common Irish affairs in a manner calculated to promote in a few years a complete re-union. The Observer asks whether, in the event of all Ulster being provisionally excluded, Sir Edward Carson and his friends cannot agree at the outset to a joint session with the remainder of Ireland, meeting alternately in Dublin and Belfast, to. discuss common affairs. The Observer predicts that on such terms there would be within a few years one Irish Parliament and one Nation. t The News of the World says regarding the exclusion of Ulster that tho only obstacle to the agreement of 1914 was the exclusion or inclusion of the County Tyrone, but now it has been suggested that Tyrone be partitioned' between the rival parties. There is good reason to believe that Mr Asqiiith's plans are capable of realisation. If Mr Redmond agrees to this, Sir Edward Carson would possess a masterly argument with which to overcome all the Covenanters objections to an Irish Parliament. Sir Horace Plunkett suggests that Ireland should be put under a Commission—the more completely Irish the better—with wide powers enabling it to secure effectiveness for its decisions. The Commission will open the way to a new and fully-representative Government until after the war, when a permanent settlement can be effected. The Commission should be a small body with an advisory council co-operating.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 40, 22 May 1916, Page 5
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