ULSTER'S BARGAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 97, 27 April 1938, Page 7

ULSTER'S BARGAIN.

British-Eire Treaty Will Bring Benefits. PREMIER'S STATEMENT. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, April 2G. In the Ulster Parliament, Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, announced in connection with the pact between Britain and Eire, that Britain was adjusting her financial relations so as to benefit Ulster and ensuring the same social services. Britain had scheduled coal prices that would apply equally to Eire and Ulster, and Britain had promised Ulster further substantial rearmament orders.

IRISH COMMENT. New Treaty Leaves Partition Problem Unsolved. INJUSTICE MUBT BE REMEDIED. DUBLIN, April 20. The "Irish Press," Mr. de Yalera's oigan, says: "Although the agreement will be hailed with joy and gratification by the Irish people, it in no wise affects the supreme and predominant question of partition, which still awaits solution. There can be no final and satisfactorv settlement of differences between Britain and Ireland until that great injustice is remedied and until the reintegration and reunification ot the territory of Eire has been achieved." The "Irish Times" says: "Mr. Chamberlain and his colleagues have shown a genuine desire to meet the Irish haltway. indeed, more than halfway, and the Irish must prove they are not ungenerous. Northern Ireland's suspicions can be removed only by more intimate relations between London and Dublin ''