PERFIDIOUS ALBION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 285, 2 December 1925, Page 7

PERFIDIOUS ALBION.

MR. DE VALERA ANGRY. SOME TROUBLE BREWING. THE BOUNDARY QUESTION. (By Cable.—Tress Association.—Copyright.; (Received io.no a.m.! LONDON. December 1. In a speech at Limerick. Mr. Kamomi do Valr-ra declared the boundary er's'.s was another invaiiec of Kr;.'-h ier...v. but if the Free State <'ul;i,io< was lir'm and stood up to _n._hind they would have n united people to combat ilrilain's designs. Mr. de Valero read letter* from (le late Mr. Arthur Griffith, stating tii.it during the negotiation* he re™.ue.lv expressed the view that the'iCn.Jlsh Crown would never be recognised unless the essential unity of Ireland is guaranteed. Mr. Lloyd George gnve that assurance, and stated he would resign if Ulster proved unreasonable. __ Mr. do Valora added that Ireland owed Knglnnd nothing financially. According to the newspapers tbe position of the Trisli Free State Government is critical owing to the Labour party attacking it on the .around that the wages offered by German contractors for the Shannon hydro-electric scheme arc inadequate, and thorp is a danger of secession of a number of the Government's supporters in the Dail to the Republican ranks, while it is understood the situation in regard to the boundary problem has become much more acute as a result of the London conversations. Mr. William Cosgrave has pone hurriedly from Dublin to London.—(Renter)