IRISH DISAGREE.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1922, Page 5

IRISH DISAGREE.

PEACE MOVE FAILS. GUNS STILL RULE. OFFER BY DE VALERA. By Telegraph.—-Press Assn.—Copyright. London, May 17. It was officially announced in the Dail Eireann that the peace negotiations have broken down. The Sinn Fein executive at Belfast passed a resolution on behalf of the persecuted and terrorised minority, calling on the Dail Eireann forthwith to establish a stable Government, declaring their conviction that the best means of acquiring peace in Belfast is the establishment of peace in the rest of Ireland, also expressing the opinion that until the special police paid by the British Government are disbanded or disarmed there will not be peace, and condemning and deploring the rule of the gun, for which the rule of the people should be substituted. Received May 18, 8.15 p.m. London, May 17. The breakdown of the Irish peace negotiations is due to the anti-Treatyites’ insistence on maintaining their present strength of representation in the Dail Eireann, and the refusal of the Treaty Party’s offer of representation on a basis of six to four. Mr. De Valera, speaking in the Dail Eireann after the breakdown of the peace committee, said: “We realise that the majority of the Dail Eireann accepted the Treaty, and if we had the power we would reverse that majority. What we desire to know is: Does the Government desire our co-opJkation ? 1 take the responsibility of offering it. COMPENSATION FOR ULSTER. LARGE VOTE FROM BRITAIN. Received May 18, 8.15 p.m. London, May 17. Sir Hamar Greenwood, in Committee of the House of Commons, submitted a vote for £750,000, representing halt oi Ihe t grant to assist the Ulster Government to meet compensation awards under the Malicious Injuries Act Discussing the proposal Mr. Devlin pointed out that the Provuncnal Gow eminent was undertaking to pay for the damage done bv Sinn Ferners in South ern Deland and Britain was paying fo T tte damage done by ‘‘the black and tuns” The Imperial Government was now coming to the Ulster Government s help That was the British taxpayer 5 affair hut what provision was being made for the .Roman sufferers in T'lster who only received the most meagre compensation under the eoun y ■mJ awards’ A commission should KuSS in Ulster to deal with said there was an oblivion on the part of the Imperial Government to assist the Ulster. Government to remove the heavy burden from a young Government just tunc tlO Mn B k.enworthy opposed the vote as the beginning of a vast system o s sidies to Ulster, and moved a reduction of the vote by £500,000. Colonel Ward said that as the disorders in Ulster were due to the nolicv the Northern Government was taking an adequate share of the, lubu y in undertaking to pay one-third of the da Mr ß Godfrey Collins pointed during the current year £6,750,000 would be paid to sufferers m and the British Exchequer would have to find three pounds for every pound found by the Ulster Government. Sir Hamar Greenwood said the grant was to relieve the local ratepayers of a burden which would mean bankruptcy to the local authorities. The cost of making peace in Ireland would be £10,000,000, assuming there would be no untoward development. Mr. Kenworthy’s motion was negatived without a division. DISORDERS IN BELFAST. MANY BHARP ENCOUNTERS. Received May 18, 8.55 p.m. London, May '7. Belfast last night was the scene of many sanguinary encounters between Sinn Fein gunmen and the Crown force*.. Many casualties in the southern area included one woman killed and another wounded. Incendiarism was freely mnorthern area was next involved, large military detachments in armored cars engaging armed mobs, and fighting continued until the ten o clock curfew. The casualties are believed to be grave, but they have not been ascertained. —Aus.-NjZ. Cable Assn. TROOPS IN IRELAND. READY FOR AN EMERGENCY. Received May 18, 8.55 p.m. London, May 17. Sir William Dakison asked in the House of Commons whether British troops bad been offered -to the Ulster Government to repel organised raids by the republican army, and also whether adequate forces were available in the event of a massed attack on the Ulster border. . . , , Mr. Chamberlain said British troops had not been offered to Sir James Craig for any specific purpose, but the troops stationed in Ulster were available if the civil powers requested their aid. . e Government had no reaeon to believe that the available forces were inadequate. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.