Irish News

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 8, 4 March 1925, Page 47

Irish News

;A^ftOTK'.TO; GENEVA.—THE P.HESBYTEHIAN MO])FR.A'jk)ll AND HIS CRITICS. -4JPHE BOUNDARY COMMISSION LEAVES 'THE NORTH" F IRISH BFNEDdtCTLNES.—MR. O'HIGGINS' EXPLANATION.-SHANNON .YDRO-EDLXTRJ.CAL • . . " ',■.:.:;;,;,.,. : SCHEME. . . '■'. '■

\ The-London Catholic Times for January 3,. ■ says':— ,'f. :'-.^ The Note dispatched by Mi. D. Fitzgerald, | Minister for External Affairs, to the General ■- Secretary of the League of Nations, with re- ; ference tto ; ; the.»controversy caused by the •. registration 'of the Treaty, is moderate in : tone. - It; briefly 'records the Free State : ~Ministry's! dissent from the view expressed : byvtho British Government that tho terms of: Article 18 of the Covenant lire inapplic- . able to the Anglo-Irish Articles of Agreement-of-Deceitiber (5, 1921. No useful purpose, Air. - Fitzgerald, emphasises, would be served by the initiation of a discussion as to the in- - tentions .of individual „ signatories of the '■ Covenant, the obligations of Article 18 being imposed in most specific terms on every memher of.,tho, League. .Tims, as far as Dublin is- concerned, the incident provoked by the Foreign Office dispatch is Over. 11 remains fqr Geneva to take such action as it deems appropriate:' -In this connection it might be borne in mind that diplomatic silence has so life times much to recommend it. : The Moderator of the Presbyterian General •Assembly, the Eight Rev. Dr. Hamilton, has enraged D.ie-Hard .opinion in the North. Speaking recently,, to bis co-religionists in 'i 'Dublin, be described himself as an Irishman "to the- backbone, praised the Free Slate Government Or its courage and sincerity, and advised the Ulster loaders In modify . their altitude toward 7 -; the South. More daring still, • lie ,suggested Ihat. Partition, In jvliich lie was himself opposed; was unpopular in. business circles in Belfast, which would '; rejoice^wholeheartedly when the day of- reconciliation came and boundaries and boycotts were forgotten. The iSnrllicm Wli'm and- the- ■ Belfast Tclvuivph employ their Choicest phrases in denouncing the Modera- . 'tor's implied rejection of the Orange creed. Can if be.that their language is inspired ;'■ .by -a- subconscious fear (bat Dr. Ifamiltou speaks .for an 'increasing section of his people ? ' ■ V \ ■ ■:,; -.■-- 'A " Mr.- Justice- Feetham. and bis colleagues have completed their lour through the de- ■: : bated, frontier areas. From Derry, the last .'I centre vi ted,., they .issued a communication ij thanking the people of the North for the! • -opportunities which had been afforded them ;. of. [gathering ■ information*' and hearing .;.' something of the views of different sections of opinion. While thanking the press g for the valuable assistance it had given them, !| the Commissioners v felt it necessary to add fUwkk a'■number of the statements attributed Mg.to.them during their stay in Ulster were / 'unauthorised and misleading; The allegation ''-• that they had decided to exclude historical considerations when tracing the new bound- ..-'•' ary wes, in particular, absolutely unfounded.

, The, Most Key. Dr. Gilmartin, Archbishop of Tuam, speaking at the first distribution of prizes at Kylemore Abbey, Co. Gahvay,where a school lias recently been opened by. the Irish Dames of Ypres, paid tribute to the great traditions of the Benedictine Order. These' traditions, he recalled, had- been handed '.'own From the earliest monastic age in the history of the Church. What Tie had seen at Kylemore Abbey gave him every hope that they would permeate, in the years to come, _ /Catholic 'life of Ireland. Although "iA'pre-R'td'ormation days (here -were many Benedict ine monasteries in Ireland, the Dames' til Kylemore Abbey and the Fathers at Mount St. Hem-diet. Gorey, Co. Wexford, arc the only representatives of life Order"in the Free Slate. Mount St. .Benedict, founded some twenty' years ago, by Dem Francis Sweelmaii, 0.5.8., is eon- a leading Catholic ' •school. Don. Patrick Nolan, 0.5.8., the wellknown Irish writer, is a member of the Community at•• Corey. His recent book on the evolution of the banking system caused considerable discuss Urn.. ■ ✓ /.» »» Mr. Kevin OMiigginx, Vice-President of the Council, has issued an imperial;! slat - ment in ihe Dublin ore s. It has i." : o decided, he aiitioiinces, to strengthen l!;.. C'lM'utnu Na. u-Caedhea'l '}-.■■ inviting to lis coiineils a- i.une.ber of distingins'ied iiubii'.'. nam who have no oininac! ; ion with Sieu Fein'.' 'Since Ihe ■Cirma'mi N:V n-l •■ dhoa.'l ha never regarded i«• -M" as I he- ■ ;>e« i d \-,vr -wo o! any given section of opinio;!, ii.;.:, ,icp, he ooiuls out, a, in full harmony with iis' iradilioiis. 'Yet it. lots given rise i-o eouei less rntnors. suggesting thai; Ihe Ministerial organisation is torn .by dissension ami leal its left wing is nboul !o join the National Croup being made with iuena-a-iii:', Iretjuency by leading eriies of Ihe (Jnvcnnnrnt in Dublin, These statement's, as Mr. O'Jliggins says, create a w'udiy false impression, the truth being thai the Cumann Na u-Caedueal. - —with the exception of some six or seven back-bench Deputiesis solidly in favor of the broadening process that has been decided on. Even, the discontented Deputieswho .fear that the .introduction of .new elements into the Ministerial organisation may tend to alienate the National Group still further —do not desire to precipitate a rupture, their immediate aim being an entente with Mr. MeCratii's supporters in the provinces rather than the construction of a coalition of tho Left. Meanwhile, there is.much activity; in .the divisions where by-elections are approaching. Good: news comes, especially, from Sligo. There /the Cumann Na n-Gacdheal..and the Farmers Group have, joined forces against the Anti-Treaty Parly, and their candidates areexpected to do well, despite the strength of Republican feeHn'g in the ..remoter ; parts of

the constituency. In Cavan, • unfortunately, complications' have arisen in the Pro-Treaty h camp, many- Ministerialists being averse from f opposing the re-election'.of : Mr. Scan-Mtiroy»" « the local stanclard-bcarerMf-the ‘‘Mutineers,’’ '■ hi view* of his real sjendeeg to the * Anglo-Irish peace. Mere his- return' Aac- ■ quiesced in by the • Ciihiann Na '• 1 do not think that any serious results h’llo'.v. Ho is essentially a Constitutionalist,'/ though events have borne him to the side of -Hr. J. McGrath am}, his military friends,/

'The report has just begin published •', Sieiuens-Shuckcrt scheme for'the hydro-elec- V Weal development* of the Shannon;/ Tho-: scheme has been;approved by the four iurer- -v lf,fcu>,ml . ( hydra-electrical experts appointed'! y biro ( '. QVr ': ,l,llp !. lfc :t() examine it. Underwit'* °i' (M ' v (mvu and 1 -village will in five .years bo:* electrically served. From Cahirciveen on tlmC southernmost tip-of the-Kerry CoastloHhotopmost point of Donegal the efectneity vehjped-by (he Shannon will spread over •the" i''-<;o 'Sinle. The cost of the scheme i s ' esti-5 mate ; l »* .€7,87l),00O. The experts' rerwn-1 nH thai 11,0 "bole scheme be ' not takol ! nfc oJ, <*\ but a modified form 0 if-I>M-iiiittn, g later of full development, which* «■'» oust :ir5,20(),00d. The experts agree that' ;'»'»vmft,.f«H- (he interest/ for the first fW Ws I Ik. scheme "ill »| low , profit in its.,xtn •""'■. and will thereafter become a fry! 5 '■•K proportion. The sehenurwdl provide em-J-"-jmi-.it tor t.iree years for 28fj6 men. "It f ; X!)( 'f 'V ll: " il!!,;,!h it (he whoh>>ople;V M ,l(! (mi-.' -mil ~i, , fc^«( , '"■; '*' ! ( i<"lMc.!iv at rxcepDoiiallv -'-'■• i P'''.^,,, : t-tfiat t^halidimldeliendenee / ~M^i"U-.!-'. fr o),p-\fiJr T la-fR C cease The' ■•j-!«'!|»' Ik-is l"""* approved by the Filiate !: ' ,h;i! ; :t; : i - ,n!f the opinion of both House.,. ' Sv '"" ,,< l ": l '" v '»" «fc almost nnauimoiislv it is "I"' , ""' l -'';"'lil'<«»8- i (rf the preparation of "T rchcroo that H ' ~,P Fy ™ State; does-not ;. ; T -J'?' O "'meus-Shuokert are do a v e '.;■'. U ;; ,,!:i! °* lU ™ il m it. If they cannot n C f ; tli0: Jf -"'«"'«\Y- for that phrp OS e •CO rnV n ( \; er,l,lldnt ' is to "pay them ( - ,, V ,l ' U r Ihe labor ■ and expenditure U 'V ! " v "n.l.jrtnk.n,. The experts' report on if 0 ™ r |: mafe?B !l v " , 11! of 400 pages.: -Hi. Mulligan, Fr<H? .State Minister of Trade *■'l" hK,ur - v 1 - lueptioned, in disclosing the S , "'- 10 . to.the Free State Parliament, that ,( ■ '-nKMK.UMI. .in the mind, of a young Dublin fU-acliuife -Mho first interested Siemens-Shuck-or m ».*, and tjion got the Flee StateT-.,bi. no.t to take it up. Mr. McGilligan paid a tribute to the originator's wisdom and persistence; " '• '•''-'•, ;.=j ■ • ■ "