ULSTER'S PARLIAMENT

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 71, 29 March 1921, Page 5

ULSTER'S PARLIAMENT

MR. J. DEVLIN'S VIEW. WILL NOT SOLVE PROBLEM. AN INSULT TO IRELAND. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 28. Mr. Joseph Devlin, Nationalist member for the Falls Division of Belfast, speaking at Billygran, County Down, snid that the Ulster Parliament would not solve the Irish problem. The scheme insulted their nationality and intelligence, and the highest service to Ireland would be to make it impossible. He predicted the Parliament's early decease. Armed men raided the telephone exchanges round Dublin and dismantled the switchboards.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) A.L.P. AND IRELAND. SYDNEY, this day. The Labour Conference decided to jrctaiu the proportional representation system with amendments by a vote of 111 to SO. A resolution was carried sympathising with frcland, and suggestin cable be sent to Mr. John Storey, Premier, with a view to urging the King and the Imperial authorities i to withdraw their armies from Ireland, j Armed men attacked a military motor-1 car in Dublin. Three of the assailants were shot down and one soldier was wounded. Altogether 40 incendiary farm fires attributed to Sinn Feiners occurred in the Newcastle area on Saturday night.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)