RISK PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 October 1921, Page 5

RISK PEACE.

LONDON CONFERENCE. RESUMING BUSINESS. SPIRIT OF GOODWILL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Ln nd on. Oct. 20. The Irish Conference will be resumed to-morrow. The joint committee of the CoDierence has completed the task entrusted io it. It is authoritatively stated that there is no present apprehension of a breakdown. The utmost goodwill prevails on both sides. In tlie House of Commons Sir Hamar Greenwood (Chief Secretary for Ireland) was bombarded with questions regarding Ireland. He denied that the police were instructed not to prevent the importation of arms, and said the reason why inns were carried by persons intending to u*e them on behalf of the Republican Army was that the British Government aished honorably to abide by the truce. He said the drilling of the Republican Army, forcible exactions for the upceep of the Republican Army and other lets of the Republicans were regarded *• breaches of the true and representations had been made in every case, with satisfactory results in many cases, but differences had arisen in others regarding the interpretation of the terms of the truce. These had been referred to i joint committee of the Irish ConferbAT<* in London. UNREST AMONG UNIONISTS. MINISTER REFUSES STATEMENT. Received Oct. 21, 9.45 pjn. London, Oct. 21. The unrest among the Unionist Party regarding the Government’s Irish policy rulmiaated in a meeting which Mr. Austen chamberlain addressed. He said he could not discuss Ireland, as his lips were sealed. ’ Pressed as to whether he was responsible ’or initiating the conference with Sinn Fein, be admitted be made the first suggestion, ' following the King’s Belfast speech. He was not ashamed of his action, because he desired peace, if it was obtainable on . reasonable terms. He declined to discuss the question of when the North Ireland Parliament would be permitted to function. ■LONG TO BE AT PEACE.” A MESSAGE FROM DE Received Oct. 21, 9.45 p.m. London. Oct. 21. De Valera has telegraphed to the Pope as follows: •‘The people of Ireland read / your message to the King of Great Bri- \ tain, and appreciate your kindly interest in their welfare. I tender their gratitude. They are confident that the ambiguities ’bf the reply sent in the name of King George will not mislead you, as it may <he uninformed, into believing that the troubles are in i Ireland, or that the people jpf Ireland own allegiance to the British vyng. The trouble is between Ireland and England. We long to be at peace with the people of Britain, but the same constancy that has proved the reality of our fieople’s attachment to the faith of their fathers proves the reality of attachment their national freedom, and no conwill induce them to abandon it." \ QUESTIONS IN THE COMMONS. Received Oct. 21, 8.10 p.m. London, Oct. 20. In the House of Commons. Col. Archer Sbee asked on whose authority the words •‘lrish rebels” had been eliminated from liis printed question and the words "Sinn i'anen’ substituted. The Speaker explained that it was done by his instructions that questions should not be put that earned an implication or an insinuation of such a character. Mr. Gretton asked whether the holding of Sir.rx Fein courts was not a breach of the truce. Sir Hamar Greenwood replied in the affirmative, adding that persons penalised should refuse to obey and they would receive protection. However, he bebeved that steps had been taken to remove the ground of complaint.

ULSTER WILL NOT BE COERCED. London, Oct. 19. Mr. Pollock, the Ulster Finance Minister. speaking in Belfast, said the Northerners could make it known to all the world that any attempt to truncate the power of the Ulster Parliament would be resented to the last ditch. The controllers of Sinn Fein should learn once and for all that foree would fee met with force. PROBLEM OF INTERNEES. London. Oct. 20. Mr. Lloyd George, in the House of Commons. replying to a question regarding interned and untried persons in Ireland, said the question would be <ully discussed in connection with the terms of the final peace.