IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 June 1918, Page 5

IRELAND.

THE GOVERNMENT CRITICISED FEDERAL HOME RULE SCHEME. Received June 23, 5.5 p.m. London, June 22. The Morning Post says that the Government has again burned its fingers badly, at the project of surrender will hardly make the Government of Ireland easier The bedrock fact remains that the union must be maintained. The paper states that Mr Lloyd George agreed to receive a deputation from a committee appointed by all parties of both Houses, which will urge the appointment of a commission to draft a scheme of Federal Home Rule.-^-Beuter.

GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS POSTPONED. POLICY UNCHANGED. REVELATION OF INTENTIONS URGED. Received June 23, 5.5 pjn. London, June 22. The Times understands that Lord Curzon's announcement was too hastily interpreted The Government regard the Irish proposals as postponed, not abandoned. The Government does not withdraw conscription nor relax its efforts to frame a Home Rule Bill Recent event* in Ireland have convinced the Government that the first business is the establishment of law and order. Its policy remains unchanged. The Times comments that the impression, nevertheless, is conveyed that Home Rule and conscription have gone into the abyss of forsaken causes. Recent developments of the new regime in Dublin, combined with Lord Curzon's speech, suggest sheer vacillation and bewilderment, so that Mr. Lloyd George would do well sot to lose time in making his actual intentions plain.—Times Service. AMERICAN LABOR URGES HOME RULE. Received June 23, 5.5 p.m. Washington, June 22. The American Federation of Labor passed a resolution favoring Home Rule for Ireland, also that any attempts in the direction of peace at the present | time would be futile.