IRISH PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1921, Page 5

IRISH PEACE.

; NEXT MOVE MADE, REPLY FROM SINN FEIN. PEACE CONFEREiNCE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Sept. I. The Dail Eireann’s reply to Britain in the peace negotiations has been despatched to Mr. Lloyd George, who is in Scotland. Received Sept. 2, 5.5 p.m. ' London, Sept. 2. Several newspapers state the Dail Eireann’s reply proposed a formal peace conference in London, attended by plenipotentiaries. Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A SINN FEIN VIEW. A CONCILIATORY SPIRIT. Received Sept, 2, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 2. The Irish Bulletin on Thursday night had a significant conoiliahory article stating that the Irish people should accept the fact that Britain and Ireland are closely linked. The paper says there is no incompatability between recognition of Ireland’s right to independence and a close bond of union between Ireland and Britain. Whatever qualifications of (complete 'political and economic separation are necessary, owing to the physical and historical facts, they would be acceptable to Ireland, provided they were consonant with the principle of government by the consent of the governed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (The Irish Bulletin speaks the voice of iSinn Fein, and in the past its opinions have been antithesis of,conciliation.) LOOKING FOR THE PREMIER. DELEGATES WITH THE REPLY. Received Sept. 2, 10.45 p.m. London, Sept. 1. Messrs Robert Barten, M.P., and McGrath, two representatives of Sinn Fein, [arrived by train at Inverness in the forenoon and motored to Gairloch with the Dail Eireann’s reply to Air. Lloyd George, but the delegates just missed the Premier, who spent a few hours in Inverness during . the morning.—Reuter Service.