AN IRISH SCHEME.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 235, 1 October 1920, Page 5

AN IRISH SCHEME.

VISCOUNT GREY'S SUGGESTION. ORecelved 0 a.m.) LONDON, September 30. Viscount Grey, ex-iFoTeign Minister, in a letter to the "Westminster Gazette, declares that the government of Ireland has never been eueh a reproach and discredit to British statesmanship. The only prospect for future peace and good government is for the Irish to draw up th.ii own scheme. "The only practicable policy seems to mo," he says, "is to have three cardinal points—(l) the definite, announcement that there can only bo one foreign policy for Britain and Ireland, one army and one navy; (2) Iris'hnwn must be as free as the peoples of the great self-governing dominions to settle for themselves bow their country should be governed; (3) to give time for them to come to an agreement with each other and draw up a . scheme. The British Government will continue- to perform as best it, can the function of the. government of Ireland for a period not exceeding two years, and at the end of that period, or sooner it Ireland be ready for it, to withdraw, and the responsibility for Irish government to be on Irishmen themselves." Unionist opinion in Belfast points out that the Irish Convention has already failed to draw up a scheme for governing Ireland owing to the Sinn Fein demanding a republic. Therefore. Viscount Grey's ' panacea fails. It is the solution of a ' student sitting calm in his study, oblivious to the actual conditions. — (Reutcr.) PLACATING- THE IRISH. AN AMERICAN SUGGESTION. (Received 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 20. President Wilson intends taking an ' active part in tho last month of the Pre- , sidential campaign by issuing statements on various phases of the League of ' Nations. The first document, in answer to Mr. E. M. Swartz, Los Angeles, who asked if the Covenant were ratified with Article 10 unamended the United States would be bound to support England in the subpjection .f Ireland, the President replied that the Irish question would be submitted to the League as provided by Article 10. Ex-Senator James Lewis, Democratic candidate for the Illinois governorship, asks President Wilson to request Britain • to placate the Irish in Ireland in order ' that the Irish in America may be placated. The Irish question is a domestic one for the United States. "Enough Irishmen went to the war to warrant us asking a settlement. Britain should consent to the appointment of delegates by America, Britain, and Ireland to work out a solution, and should be to .sacrifice distinctions of government," says Mr. Lewis. Secondly, he intends askihg for modification, of tho German peace treaty to permit her to get coal for her ships and industries, and to make her able to pay her obligations.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) ANTI-BRITISH OUTBURST. PLOT TO CAPTURE AMERICA. (Received 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 3.0. Tlie police were called to Carnegie Hall to quell an anti-British demonstration by Irish women pickets and youths, who forced their way into the tercentenary '■ , celebration of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. Pandemonium arose when the | intruders broke in with banners inscribed | "Hurrah for America, down with Brij tain." The singing of the British ' National''Anthem was prevented. i Quietness was restored when the chairj man ordered the American anthem to be sung. The leader of the disturbers said i the motive was to protest against in- [ veigling American girls and boys into • singing the British Anthem, and charged i the ,Sulgrave Institution with being ~a . party to a plot to make the United i States part of the British Empire. AmeriIman officers helped the police to eject the disturbers.— .-- and N_Z. Gable.),