IRELAND’S DESTINY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1921, Page 5

IRELAND’S DESTINY.

PROSPECTS FOR PEACE. OPTIMISM PREVAILS. A REPUBLIC DROPPED, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received July 24, 5.5 p.m. London, July 23. The evening Standard says the Southern Unionists approve of the terms Da Valera is submitting to the Dail Eireann, and Sir James Craig and the Ulster Cabinet regard the general safeguard as adequate. De Valera, early in the conversations, dropped the demand for an Irish republic, and plain sailing followed, Mr. Lloyd George making many concessions. The Imperial Parliament will maintain adequate military safeguards, and the new Irish Governments will fully control taxation, excise and Customs. The Royal Irish Constabulary will diaapr pear, and the present police will be roast. Powers will be given to raise new :erritorial forces.

It is reported that General Smuts is again going to Dublin, and Cabinet consulted him specially, prior to this. The London newspapers deciare that optimism regarding the ultimate result continues in both Government and Sinn Fein circles.—Aus.-NZ Cable Assn, ] DELAY IN NEGOTIATIONS. THE TRUCE TO CONTINUE. Received July 22, 5.5 p m. London, July 22. Mr. G’Brien explained to an interviewer that he vas remaining in London as a possible vehicle of communication between De Valera and the Premier General Smuts Is probably visiting Dublin on Saturday; he was called in /Consultation with the Premier, Mr. Winston Churchill and Cabinet Ministers last evening. Mr. O’Brien is of opinion that it. may be a fortnight before any definite progress is made one way or the other, but the true? on Sinn Fein’s part, will be faithfully kept in the interim —United Service. DE VALERA INTERVIEWED*

BEFORE LEAVING LONDON. London, July 22. Mr. De Valera, interviewed on the eve of has departure for Ireland, eaid that though the immediate future was uncertain they had perfect confidence in the ultimate suece-® of their cause. Addressing an enthusiastic crowd of supporters at Euston station, in Irish and English, he said: “Only a just caust could inspire such enthusiasm. Our cau.se is just. I am perfectly certain we snail win in the end. It may take time to accomplish, but success will certainly come.” The Dublin correspondent of th? Manchester Guardian states-. “Though the -ituaiion is generally contemplated hopefully. the optimists are frankly disappointed that the prolonged consultation did not yield a basis for Mr. Lloyd Geroge’s original proposal for a triangalai eonferonce. A complete breakdown was regarded as almost incredible. The truce has immensely stimulated the desire for peace. The deliberate renewal of the state of war is regarded as unthinkable.” • AN ORANGE MANIFESTO.

The Grand Master of the Loyal Orange Lodge Institution of England has written to Mr. Lloyd George, stating

—“The Orange Order look upon the negotiations between the Prime Minister of a great Protestant peace-loving State with the head of an organised, unrelenting murder-gang having for its object the disruption of the 'Empire, as the negation of British policy. They fear I that the unpatriotic attitude towards i Sinn Fein of such men as Mr. Asquith, 1 Lord Buckmaster, the Archbishop of I Canterbury, and some of the Nonconj formist leaders, while prolonging the icamoaign of murder in Ireland, is also ' weakening the Government in its re- | solve to stamp out crime and protect law-abiding citizens. We realise your difficult jMssition was created largely by your predecessors, who deserve short shrift at the hands of the British people for their misgovernment of Ireland prior Ito and during the war.*’ A FORMALITY. London. July 22. Sir James Craig submitted Mr. Lloyd George’s proposals to Mr. De Valera at [a Northern Cabinet meeting. Receipt of the proposals is regarded merely as an act of courtesy.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.