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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 138, 13 June 1922, Page 5

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[THE DISPUTED POINTS IN IRISH CONSTITUTION. P AGREEMENT REPORTED. i COLLINS AND REPUBLIC. A BAR TO PROGRESS. |By Cable. --I'ress Association.—CoDjrighU (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 12. Jlr. Winston Churchill, Secretary of Ibc Colonies, announced that ho wa3 not likely to make an Irish statement until to-morrow, possibly Thursday. The "Star" states that the -whole six points raised by the British signatories JDVolving allegiance to the Privy Council appeals, the status of the Crown's representative, and restrictions in regard to foreign policy have been adjusted. Mr. Griffith is returning to Dublin with the Xevised draft. Interviewed in Dublin, Mr. Michael Collins said that while he would strain every nerve to avoid a clash with British troopa on the north-eastern border, it did not follow that his Government had not a. very definite policy to enforce as n last resource against the demoniacal barbarism which aimed at the extermination of the people in the six counties. — I. Router.) Addressing a meeting of the coalition panel in favour of the Presidency of Mr. de Valcra at the Dublin Mansion House, Mr. Collins was interrupted by an interfector mentioning the republic. Mr. Collins burst out, "Don't tie yourself to a name like that. In a hundred years more people may be saying a. republic is the worst form of tyranny. Don't put a bar to the progress of the nation." The statement created considerable astonishment, but Mr. de Valera and other Republicans listened without comment. Speculation is rife as to whether they intend to abandon the Republican position. —(United Service.) A number of Protestant eonntry Jiouses in Westmeath -were burnt during the week-end in reprisal for the recent happenings in Belfast. A number of Protestant shops in Mullingar were also wrecked. Armed robhera entered the office of Mr. Devine, a business man in Belfast, and ordered him to put his hands np. Devine refused, and was shot dead. —(A. »nd N.Z. Cable.) ■WORK OH BEAUTIES. DE VAIXRA'S ATTITUDE. |j ' (Beeelred 2.30 p.m.) . LONDON, June 12. Mr. de Valera, supporting the panel candidates for Queenstown, defined his present attitude, stating that while agreement was impossible upon the fundamental question of separating Irishmen, yet they could work now on existing realities.—(Keuter.) PRACTICALLY ASSURED. DEATHBLOW TO EXTREMISTS. LONDON, June 12. The Parliamentary correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that Mr. Lloyd George hae invited representatives of the Southern Irish Unionists to attend Monday's conference, which can be taken to indicate that a settlement is practically assured. The well informed Dublin corresponaent of the "Daily News" says he is satisfied that necessity justified Mr. Collins' coalition ■with Mr. de Valera. Mr. Collins found that he could not otherwise carry his election decree through the Dail Eirann, where defeat would have more gravely affected the treaty than the coalition. Mr. de Valera is now believed to be preparing the way for a qualified acceptance of both the treaty and the Constitution in order that his followers may accept ; office under the first Free State Parliament. The coalition pact has been Mr. de Valera'e death-Wow with the left wing.—(A. and X-Z. Cable.)