IRISH AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1922, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

THE TREATY BILL. HOI OF LORDS DEBATE. SUPPORT GROWING. By Telegraph.—Press Asen.—Copyright. Received March <l6, 5.5 p.iri. London, March 15. In the House of Lords, Viscount Peel, moving the second reading of th? Irish Treaty Bill, said he thought the delay in holding the Irish elections had many advantages. A slow and steady movement had arisen among the Irish people against de Valera in favor of the treaty. Lord Lansdowne thought the Bill tampered with the very foundations of the constitutional system. He was an unrepentent Unionist, but he realised that as the Unionist policy had been thrown overboard and that the rejection of the Bill would extinguish the only ray illuminating the melancholy horizon, the Government was riding for a fall over the Ulster boundary. Lord Haldane believed the only alternative to the treaty was civil war, cost ing endless blood and treasure. The debate was adjourned.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A CHILD MURDERED. SHOT WHILE AT PLAY. Received March 16, 7.15 p.m. London, March 16. A five-year-old child at Belfast was shot dead while playing with a doll at the door of a house in Falls Road. A man was shot dead at the corner of Cork Street. THE DERRY MURDERERS. ULSTER PREMIER’S THREAT. London, March 15. Sir James Craig, speaking in the Ulpter Parliament, declared that the Derry murderers were reprieved over the Ulster Government’s head. Sir James Craig added: “If there is further interference with the courts by the Viceroy I shall resign.”