IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1918, Page 5

IRELAND.

HOME RULE GRANTED. CONSCRIPTION LEFT TO IRISH PARLIAMENT. Received April 0, 7.15 p.m. ' London, April 9. The Irish Convention lias concluded its deliberations, after 51 sittings. United Service. London, April 0. The Manchester Guardian states that the Government intends establishing, home rule. The new Man-Power Bill will include Ireland, but its enactment there will be suspended until the Irish Government approves. \ Great English and American moral pressure will be applied.

THE CONSCRIPTION QUESTION AN ADVERSE COMMENT. SINN. FEINER URGES RESISTANCE. London, April 8. The Daily Chronicle says. We learn that the Government, m anticipation of the Irish settlement, proposes to include Ireland in the new Military Service Bill, and that it is their intention to extend conscription to Ireland at some unspecified date This serious blunder will assuredly blast the fair and promising hope of reconciliation between Ireland and England, and the Government will incur the terrible responsibility of wrecking the Convention's work

It is true Ireland's exemption from the Act of 1916 was an anomaly, and if conscription accompanies Home Rule Ulster's objection to an Irish Parliament will be mitigated, but this reasoning ignores the realities. The Home Rule Act did not become operative in 1914. There are signs that Sinn Fein is on. the down grade. It is the bounden duty of the Government promptly to adopt the Convention's recommendations, and conscription must itiot be mingled with Home Rule. '■ Mr. De Valera, M.P., in a speech at Tullamore said the Irish people must unite to a man to resist conscription. It was better to die for Ireland than for Flanders.