IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1919, Page 5

IRELAND.

THE SINN FEIN FIASCO. A DISMAL PROSPECT. THEIR REIGN WILL SOON END. Received Jan. 3, S p.m. London, Jan. 1. The Star's Dublin correspondent states that the Sinn Feinera' organisation renders unfavorable the summoning of a mimic parliament to frame a protective tariff and appoint consuls .at British ports. The prospect is about as dismal as the ill-starred Chartist conventions m 1839. The Sinn Feinera owe their electoral success to the fatvous delusion th-t those Allies who are Sinn Fein sympathisers, having hindered to the upmost, will now force England to grant complete independence. When the farmers realise that the Dublin Parliament is passing waste-paper resolutions and never performing anything, the reign of Sinn Fein will soon end.—Reuter.

A SINN FEIN THREAT.

POSITION OF NATIONALISTS.

London, Jan. 1

A! Sinn Fein member states that if the Peace Congress fails to establish Ireland's independence the Sinn Feiners will attend the Home of Commons and raise hell.

Owing to Mr. Dillon'3 defeat the reelected Nationalists will probably resign, allowing Sinn Feiuers to replace them. point out that the Countess Markievicz, being the wife of an unnaturalized Pole, is not a British subject and cannot be elected to Parliament.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.