IRISH CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1921, Page 5

IRISH CRISIS.

DE VALERA’S ATTITUDE. ANXIETY IN DUBLIN. FURTHER PEACE EFFORTS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. London, August 27. Unprecedented scenes were witnessed in Dublin while waiting for Mr. De Valera’s letter to Mr. Lloyd George. The city was agog with excitement and there was the keenest anxiety to ascertain whether it meant peace or war. Enormous crowds remained from early morning in the vicinity where the Dail Eireann was in session. It is understood the Dail Eireann has accepted Mr. Lloyd George's offer for further negotiations, probably in London. The Times says: '‘Englishmen will find it hard to understand Mr. De Valera's letter, which reject* the terms explicitly and entirely, while seeming to proffer a key to the door which be himself has portentously locked. “Mr. Lloyd George's reply is the only one possible to a com tn unicatin so conclusively refusing to abandon an impracticable demand, yet. so nebulously indicating continued readiness to treat. “The Government's six principles are th? irreducible minimum approved by the nation and the British Commonwealth. Unless prepared to put forward substantially equivalent alternatives. I Sinn Fein must assume the responsibility of plunging Ireland into a continuation of the ruinous and hopeless conflict. Englishmen earnestly desire the conclusion of age-long controversy, hut there is a limit beyond which England will not go.”

ORANGEMEN DISAPPROVE. OF CONFERENCE WITH REBELS. London, August 29. Twenty thousand Orangemen, 6000 from Belfast, held a demonstration at Ncwtownards, County Down, and passed a resolution of disapproval of the British Government conferring vyith the rcb 1 leaders. The motion went on: ‘‘We have no confidence in any undertakings these criminals may enter into and believe that no good will result from eueh fellowship. We call upon Britain to deal resolutely with the rebels’ cruel and treacherous warfare. Mr. Archdale, M.P., addressed the demonstrators.