DISAPPOINTMENT AROUSED.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1917, Page 5

DISAPPOINTMENT AROUSED.

PROPOSED CONVENTION FEASIBLE. MR. REDMOND'S VIEWS. Received May IS, 5.5 p.m. ' London, May 17. The Irish proposals have aroused disappoinmtent in Dublin. All sections of the Nationalists reject the partition basis, but the suggestion of an Irißh convention is regarded as feasible. A deputation of Catholics has been in Dublin'for some dayß, and if the partition proposals are countenaced the members will start a campaign to defeat them. Mr. Redmond, who presided at the meetinfr of Nationalists in London, decided on a certain action 1 ,, which was embodied in a letter tp Mr. Lloyd George, stating that the Nationalists were prepared to recommend a convention on condition that it is fully and fairly representative of all creeds. MR. REbMOND'S REPLY. Received May 18, 7.10 p.m. London, May 17. Mr. John Redmond's reply to Mr. Lloyd George's proposals says: "There is no need for me to re-state the grounds whereon the Irish Party have decided not to negotiate with the Government. I note what you say regarding the impossibility of taking action and reviving tbo violent politioal controversy in this crisis of war, and the Government's necesity for proposing a cettlement wb- 1 itantiallyj acc«j£e.t>le tg. fcqth, ridw. I^l

cannot acccfpt this proposition,, ■jhHiTli > l)—i ttofc teen appliiuX. to ooma otrarNaqb* ters sinco the outbreak: of war. "My colleague* th» tVQt alternatives, and opina that ttajfaft will find no support in Ireland 1 .. jSflf' are irreconcilably oppoßedl t<» the tdMHL'Any measure bated thereon triS SMltwith their vigorous opposition. ' proposed, convention lias much toxttXWt* wend it, and I tract it may bo possible of realisation. My ralfaMftt. will place no obstacle in tha way. CaH# prepared earnestly to recomqiend Jk,fc my countrymen, on condition convention, representative of JHllMt of aU creeds, interests, and putM> kf •, summoned without delaj. If wfc'-liM done, I assure you that my eolbMlN'and myself will spare so fffOTt 110 realise a high and blessed ideal. 1 * i Sir John Lonsdale, replying oa fetttV. of the Ulsterites, itatea: "We ato M< posed as strongly as ever to «at<f 48* Home !Rule policy, but an wittfejft consider the exigencies of the ti&rt \ situation * He and Ma eoHu not the power to accept the oMj tvt would submit it to theutoter OttMUt) Council, with a rocomawndatttt 'tittl a decision should be reached for ttjWt l ing the .peace and security of thaXPhA'' Kingdom, " , Mr, Wm. O'Brien re plitf to «•'' Premier stating his unaltffrolo, ijiinife* tion to 1 partition, 'but accetytjqg. ference, wherefor hi* long contended "