THE IRISH QUESTION.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1921, Page 8

THE IRISH QUESTION.

BOUNDARIES PROBLEM. . By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright London. Dec. 16. Sir James Craig has arrived to see Mr. ChamberlaS the boundaries question. “The present ratio,” he asserts, •‘seems to throw us back to where we were in 1914.” The disturbances in Belfast continued this morning. Two men were shot while going to the shipyards, one fatally, and three others wounded. Two bombs were thrown in the Marrowbone district, but no one was injured. The police and military have taken up strategic corners from which they are firing at concealed snipers. Sergeant 'Enwright, when leaving a hotel in Kilmallock. County Limerick, was shot dead by five men, who also wounded a constable seriously. Sir James Craig, interviewed, said that but for the raising of tffc boundaries question he thought they might have been able to secure approval of the treaty. Now the outlook was entirely altered. The Voice of Jjabor, the organ of Irish Labor, writes: “Whatever befall, let us keep our industrial ranks unbroken. This is not to say an individual trade unionist must suppress his views or be denied the right to act according to his convictions. Quite the contrary, but he should keep such speech and action outside the unions as organisations. We write thus because we know there are many to champion the national cause and there are few to champion Labor’s cause or devote themselves wholly to the working classes.” The House of Lords negatived Lord Northumberland’s amendment by 166 to | Tn the House of Commons Mr. Chamberlain. replying to a question, said | tl it the matter of an amnesty to Irish : political prisoners would bo considered if the agreement was ratified by both sides. The House of Lords and House of Commons both adjourned till Monday, awaiting news from the Dail Eireann. Shooting and bombing in Belfast has been resumed. A man was shot seated at the fireside in his house. Another was shot in the streets. Two houses were bombed, but there were no casualties.