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CABINETS DEMAND FROM They must have done with all these
THE IRISH FREE STATE. GRAVE SPEECHES IN THE COMMONS POLICY OF FIRMNESS
doubtful compacts" with De Valors and the enemies of the Treaty. Either they the British Government will declare the must be masters in their own house, or Treaty at an end. This hold pronounce- ment mwanantly delivered. Mr. Churs chill, apoke as though he was relieved to in this tone, for the last fore
Vory serious words were spoken in the in the position weeks he has con Commons on June 26th, by Mr. Churchill and ally had to stand up and make excuses
army
the Prime Minister, which revealed that a communication, partaking of the nature of for what he has known to be utterly АД altimatum, has been sent by the British Government to the Provisional Government came acquiescence in humiliations which inexcusable, and to show an apparently of the Irish Free States demanding, among he detested as much as his critics. other
-- things the
the expulsion of
of the l
The whole speech was very skilfully quarters of the Irish
from teed, the Four Courts in
And the argument was developed which have with great aldress ban turned into a nest of anarchy" and ment's policy, he said, had been devoted to
Sund
The British Govern- winch constitute, in Me Lloyd Georgy's the two-fold ubject of obtaining a tree elee.. This not is the first manifestation of the tion British Government's now policy of "im-7orthern
ablin
words, a "tinanting defiance of the
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had sequired of assassination. Thanks, however, to elements, there would be no excuse for them MANILA
over its mony violent combination of circumstances to the ruling if they failed to do their duty in stopping all HAIPHONG of the Chair, to the overshadowing magnizade reprisals on the Catholic minority. At th of the larger issue, and also to the opening time, he fully simitted that the speech of Mr. Churchill, the debate kept prime cause of the outrages in the North BORNEO mainly to the Government's Irish policy lay in inn Frin's and their responsibility for the present statiintaining two Irish Republican
provocative of affairs.
Divisions
in northern territory, but he con- sans phrase the Belfast shootings, while he promise that Uister should TIKATBIN in whatever supplies and forces were necessary to protect her from Sinn Fein attacks. deserted by tire with, would never be
Britain, The house was
ilt
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Naturally, the previous Thursday's tragedy was continuously present to every one's mind. It tinged the whole debate, and several speakers, Mr. Ronald MeNeill in a much such a faster responsibility so on the Home Secretary as in the Government as a whole. But the House as a whole was by no means incline along the ed assured that the position take that view, sat, though Afr. Shorts in the Northern Grundmande series "inal by no means a very popular guvo athen cleared of invaders 'neutral zone,, Westminster just now, there was a loud four or five miles wide, has been forutet, in cheer when Mr. Churchill described the which no one is to be allowed to bear arms attacks upon him as monstrous,
The Colonial Secretary states briefly but with the easy of being summarily shot by
troops, and order in conspicuous fairness the cold facts of the polis: force. This arrangement has the zon will be kept by An Crained case as to police protection. Assassination, he tra sait, has been very rare in support of Both the Northern and Sou- England; the courage shown on Thursday
them Governments and if it success it by
and civilians will probably police
will be extended along the border; if it fails make it rarer still. It is also quite impos the British Government are determined to sible to protect everyone who many reason draw a military line from Dundalk to Bally ably be thought to have excited the shannon, a line which will ignore the devious
by resentment of the murder gang. He showet,
[
under
the
1, that the general removal of policety boundaries and be dictated by purely protection bust hary had been teenitary considerations, impartially inter- mended months before by Sir Basil Thomson, secting the frontiers of both States. Any though it has now been renewed to attempt to break into the North will be put. certain extent, our best security against down by the Imperial troops, and Sinn assassination lay in demonstrating that it Fein will have to realise the mistake of not pay, by holding resolutely to our supposing that it is possible to repent in the policy in spite of it. It must be observed six counties the policy which proved success- that this phrases about not yidding to the ful in the twenty-six. assassin was keenly taken up by several of Mr. Churebill's critics, who retorted that it was, only because the Governinwnt had yielded to the assassin that they were how in such a sorry plight with regard to
Ireland.
ME BONAR LAW'S VIEW.
This promise of "firmness". pleased tlie general body of the members and lisɓeð most. It satisfied, for example, Mr. Bonar Law, who said he believed that the Govern- As to Sir Henry Wilson himself, Mr.ment mean to as their new declaration Churchill pail a noble tribute to his splen-through. If they do not," he said, "I did zeal for the glory of the British Empire will be against them." He thought that
ala AN EXACT PROPHECY,
ant to his wonderful military judgment the House could not fairly ask the Govern and prescience. He illustrated the fast pointment to do more at this moment, but by stating that at the time of the Agadir in the Provisional Government still refuse cident in 191: he laid before the British Cabinet an exact campaign which in Germany the plan of the face the facts and honestly confront followed in 1914, their Republican enemies he will be for bass! on his reasoned conviction that she ancelling the Treaty and taking the would invade Belgium.
Ta that, said Mr consequences, grave as they are. Mr. Churchill, we owed our preparations in
estion with the British Expeditionary Mr.
in con- Bonar Law is greatly disturbed by Force, and he added that if Sir Henry's almost make him despair of his good faith. Collins's recent speeches; they ruuling of the future had commended
the French General. Staff they would However, the results of the Irish elections hase spared their initial disasters when war are worth something, and he does not broke out
This tribute left nothing to be abandon all hope even yet. The Die-Hards, desired in the way of warmth and ap on the contrary, pointed to the present state preciation.
of Ireland and to the recent tragedy o other most striking anecdote told justification of their repeated contention of the Field Marshal came from Mr. Ronald McNeill, who described his last that to "shake hands with murder" could conversation with him. As Sir Henry
lead to RO honourable settlement. going to Glasgow Mr. McNeill observed Sir Frederick Banbury, Colonel Gretton, that he ought to have protection, because Colonel Ashley, and others went over the they might try a shot at him in that Com-old ground again, while Mr. Gideon munist centre.
night miss me,"
me," Marray outdid them in bitterness, with "But they might an attack on the Prime Minister as "one w even if they did, it is better
WELR
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MR. SHORTT'S DEFENCE.
to be shot by them than to shake hands losing us Ireland and breaking up the with them." This was a hard thrust at row of Ministers who sat listening to words, and Mr. McNeill turned the daggor in the wound by adding that both the Government and Sir Henry had had their relations with the murder, gang. Sir Henry was murdered; the Government were
'steeped in dishonour."
Late in the evening Mr. Shorts defended his position from the attacks which had been made upon him-mostly outside "Par liament and claimed that the Secret Service was even more efficient than it was twelve months ago. NO MORE BEEACHES OF THE TREATY.
For five months after the But it is time to tarn to the exceedingly there had been no untoward incident, and withdrawal of police protection last January important pronouncement of Governmcat policy with which the debate opened, in the views of every person under protection, crowded House and with crowded galleries, including Lord Carson, had been asked
with Mr. and the American the change was
Serret Ambassador as deeply interested six-ctators. Bervice advised thus robberies of armas soon became apparent that the assassina and incendiarism might be expected, tion was to mark the opening of a new but that there would be no organised stage in the Government's Irish polic
policy It
It
is not, Irish Free State within the Empire and find no trace of a special warning with re- no coercion of Ulster under any pretext gard to Sir Henry Wilson, nor had the whatsoever. The change IN in the police in Ulster any knowledge of danger attitude of the British Government towards threatening him. The Home Office never the Provisional Government, in the dania ignored warnings. It was abrions that ished tolerace which it will show to its Sir Heary's life was in danger in Ireland, erasions and infractions of the lotter and
bat not in England, and it was eruel to
a change of policy itself murder in England, and he did not believe That same-the creation of the that it had ever been.intended. He could
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was weak and embarrassed and suggest negligence on the part of the should do it with advantages in our. still unfortified by the declared Service. The two men concerned in his favour which we did not possess when SHANGHAI OFFICE will of the Irish people it was the British death had no connection, so far as could be negotiations for the Treaty began, for Government's policy to overlook these in ascertained with Ireland. They were the first time the world would hold us
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no part of the arms handed to the Proviented that a communication had already a single murderer, will no longer sional Government in Ireland.
do à much stricter reckoning must prevail. The continuel existence of the Re- publican army, which is a gross "affront to the treaty," must be tolerated no more; its headquarters must be routed out from the Four Courts in Dublin, which have
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S DISCLOSURE. '"'
been sent to tae Provisional Government with respect to the seizure of the Four: Mr. Shortt's conclusion was that, he had Courts--which he called a "flaunting acted throughout under skilled advice, and defiance of the Treaty"--but he declined declared, "So long as I am not personally to say whether it contained a time-
tumed into "a nest of anarchy and attacked by anyone whose opinion. I value, limit, adding that developments must
I do not care in the least." Then came occur within a abort time, and that a The British Government, so Mr. Churchill de closing speech from the Prime Minister, serious position would arise if the clared, will send a request in express who vigorously defended the Government Irish Government failed to carry out its terms" that this state of things shall come Irish policy after paying a high tribute to duty. As for the Treaty itself, he was speedy end; if the request is not com Sir Henry Wilson's brilliant qualities. He not willing to accept the theory that it was plied with, they will regard the Treaty as justified the negotiation and the Treaty failure after only six months' trul in a
formally violated" and will resume full which followed. "Whatever befalls, he transitional period. liberty of action:
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