LLOYD GEORGE'S REPLY

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 214, 8 September 1921, Page 5

LLOYD GEORGE'S REPLY

SENT TO DUBLIN. PUBLICATION TO-MORROW, CABINET MEETS AT INVERNESS (By Cable.—Press Association,—Copyrlcht.l (Boeelvpd 10.30 a.m.) LONDON", September 7. Mr. Lloyd Georgo has handed to Mr. Barton, the Sinn Fein envoy, Cabinet's reply to de Valera'n last letter. Mr. Barton has gone to Dublin. The reply will he published to-morrow. Mr. Lloyd George motored 30 miles before breakfast in order to attend a conference with the King at Monthall, 12 miles from Inverness. After two hours' interview, Mr. Lloyd George reached Inverness at 11.30, a half-hour late. He was wildly chccTed by the excited crowd. Members of the Cabinet in tweed suits were so unlike the photographs and caricatures that a number passed into the council chamber at the Town Hall without the crowd recognising them. — (A, and N.Z. Cable.) LABOUR AND THE CRISIS. RECOGNISING REALITIES. TIME FOR A CONFERENCE, LONDON, September 1, The Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress and the national executive of the Labour party sent the following message to Mr, Lloyd George on Tuesday night: —

'The Irish negotiations have entered a most critical stage. It would be a disaster if the deep spontaneous feelings in favour of peace now pervading the two countries were allowed to evaporate while their representatives engaged in exchange ing controversial Notes,

"Tlie British Government, in our opinion, should invite representatives of the Irish people to meet face to face with Pntisii representatives in a conference. The promotion of peace involves personal "iiogu.iauon iv a conterence in order that the British Governrcont and Irish leaders may escape from v verbal controversy and arrive at a recognition of the realities of the problem, "The termination of negotiations would, according to you, mean resumption of hostilities in an intensified form. We declare most emphatically that a new war would outrage the moral sense of the whole world and would never receive the sanction of the British people. The trades union and Labour movement of this country must resist to the utmost further reference to the arbitration of force and insist on the assembly of a peace conference without delay. We believe that this is the desire of citizens of both countries, and that once continuous conversations supersede written communications many obstacles to reconciliation will disappear and the negotiations will be carried to a successful issue." —(A. and X.Z. Cable.)