IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, 9 April 1918, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

CONSCRIPTION AND HOME RULE< " A NEWSPAPER OPINION. Received 10.5 a.m. LONDON April 8. The "Daily Chronicle" says: —W© learn the Government anticipation of the Irish settlement propose to in* elude in the new Military Service Bill their intention to extend conscription to Ireland at some unspecified date* This is a serious blunder and will assuredly blast the fair, promising hope of reconciliation Between Ireland and England. The Government will incur a terrible responsibility, wrecking the Convention work. It is true Ireland's exemption from the Act of 1916 was an anomaly, and if conscription accompanied Home Rule Ulster's objection to an Irish Parliament would be mitigated. But this reasoning ignores realities. The Home Rule Act did not become oeprative in T 314, There are signs that Sinn Feinism Ts on the down grade, ancTn is the Government's bounden duty to adopt promptly the recommendations ox~the Convention. Conscription must not be mingled with Home Rule. DE VALERA SPEAKS. Received 10.30 a.m. LONDON, April 8. De Valera, in a speech at said the Irish people must unite to the last man to resist It would be better to die for Ireland than for Flanders.