IRISH PEACE.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 December 1922, Page 6

IRISH PEACE.

MR. COSGROVE ILL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Dec. 6. Mr. Cosgrove rejected medical advice to relinquish the Presidency and go to the South of France, though the doctors say he may not live more than a year if he remains in Dublin. Mr. Cosgrove said: “They will call me coward if I give up now. My work is in Ireland.” The King held a historic Privy Council at which he signed the proclamation of the Irish Free State and the appointment of Mr. Timothy Healy as Governor-General. FREE STATE WELCOMED. New York, Dec. *6. The Press welcomes the Irish Free State and congratulates the Irish and English peoples upon the cessation of strife, which has lasted more than a century. The Herald advises Ireland to look upon Canada and Australia and draw a lesson. The Times heralds the event as one of the most important in the world’s history and prints a long poem honoring Ireland. Capetown, Dee. 6. stronger and more lasting than any grove: “Now that the Irish Free State has come into legal being, 1 desire on behalf of the people and Government of the Union to send sincerest congratulation on a great historic event. The treatv of peace between England and Ireland, which has now become law, will not only give added prestige and solidarity to* our great Commonwealth of free nations, but as a great, act of moral political reparation, will have world-wide influence in an era of infence racial and national passion, such as we are passing through.