TRUCE IN IRELAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 187, 8 August 1921, Page 5

TRUCE IN IRELAND.

DENUNCIATION URGED BY THE I.R.A. (By- Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.30 a.m.i LOXDOX, August 7. Provincial members of the Irish Republican Association are urging the immediate denunciation of tlie truce owing to Dublin I astle's detention of McKeon. a member of the Dail Eirann, ttUO lias bteil iound guiiiy ot tlie muruer of inspector Met. ruth.— <A. and S.'Z.j LLOYD GEORGE'S TERMS. A PROVISIONAL ACCEPTANCE. LOXDOX, August 7. It is understood that Ministerial circles ' expect the Dail Lirann to accept provisionally Mr. Lloyd George's terms, but difficulty may arise over machinery unify- j ing Ireland. Mr James Craig steadily I retuses De Valera's invitation to conter I with him in Dublin, but is ready to I attend a conference in L-ondon, wherein | the British Government participates. De Valera's object in inviting Sir James | Craig to confer is to discuss unification, to enable De Valera to act for Ireland as a whole in further negotiations with Mr. Lloyd George. Ulster refuses to j co-operate in the direction of unifying Ireland, fearing that unification would ! drive Ulster out of the United Kingdom, j Ulster's attitude may result in the Dail ! J Eirann's refusal to allow De Valera to I participate in a triangular conference in London.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.) OUT OF PRISON. I LOXDOX, August 7. All tlie members of the Dail Eirann who are in custody will be released forthwith, except McKeon, who was convicted of the murder of Police-Inspector McGrath.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)