IRISH TRUCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 March 1921, Page 5

IRISH TRUCE.

THE NEW MOVEMENT. FRESH PROPOSALS MADE. AWAITED WITH GREAT ANXIETY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 14, 5.5 p.m. London, March 12. The new peace movement in Ireland is awaited with great anxiety. One of the originators is Mr. Alexander Carlisle, ex-chairman of directors of Messrs. Harland and Wolf, who has been a channel of communication between the Premier and Griffiths (exleader of the Sinn Fein Parliament). Griffiths is still in the Mount joy Prison. Mr. Carlisle suggests a truce based on the withdrawal of the “black and tans,” and an. extension of Ireland’s fiscal control. It is noteworthy that Mr. Devlin saw the Premier on Saturday, and Mr. Lloyd George thereupon communicated with Dublin regarding the execution of Dublin’s youths, Wheelan and Moran, who were sentenced to death in connection with the murder of Dublin officers. Mr. Devlin’s intercession is regarded as the most important link in the peace negotiations. —Times Service. [‘‘Black andjans” is the name given to the auxiliafj} Crown forces.] EXECUTION OF SINN FEINERS. SIX MEN TO BE HANGED. Received March 14, 5.5 p.m. London, March 14. Six Sinn Feiners will be hangeS at Mountjoy prison in pairs at hourly intervals thia morning. Two have been convicted of murdering British officers and the remainder of participating in an ambush. There is much local anxiety over possible reprisals similar to the Cork executions. Crowds gathered at the prison all day long, reciting prayers until the curfew hour. Women held processions in the streets bearing anti-English banners. Organised labor in Dublin has ordered a general cessation of work until eleven o’clock this morning.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn. SINN FEIN LOSSES. PLOT OF FIRES IN ENGLAND. Received March 14, 5.5 p.m. London, March 12. Sinn Fein had a bad week end. In addition to seven killed at Ballinamore, thirty-six armed Sinn Feiners were captured while attempting an ambush at Callan. Among papers captured from the Sinn Feiners’ Chief of Staff is a plan for extensive burnings in England of homes of English generals and cadet captains employed in Ireland, including the homes of General Strickland and Cap•tain Reynold. A Dublin correspondent states that the boycott of Belfast goods is taking a criminal form. A representative of a Belfast firm was kidnapped twice, ducked in a canal, and then tied to a post and abandoned.—Times Service.