IRISH UNREST.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16203, 4 May 1918, Page 8

IRISH UNREST.

T - . GOVERNMENT IX DIFFICULTIES, (By Cable.—Press Association.—OopjriikU (Australian :<ml >.'.55, Cublo As*ocf*tio4.) - LONDON,. Mat 3.' ' be political correspondent dt the "Daily News" says that tho Got«fft. nient is involved in serious difficulties over its Irish policy. Firstly, l,bo Government has been able to find a Viceroy. . &V6tvl ' leers have re/used, and it is no* it) if. gostod that a commission of thr». including Messrs Bryan and D, t Mason, should bo appointed. T&jrt is a jjossibility that Viscount Millfr- < ton will act, temporarily, but it' ft - feared'thnt tho Nationalists will jfr gard this as a threat of militM*' operations. \'t Secondly, the Government's simttit.'' tee drafting the Homo Knl6 • laced by grave difficulties, and only 0 settled on the preamble, whicE.,/of#tolls a federal principle. Thirdly, tho Tories nro gluteninc f l ' against any Itind of Irish Home Responsible Labour • members, ' idto'v wi.i »i poso conscription .. unless Hti&l/ Hule is granted, consider tho RbanwS*mont of both projects is tho Gov«sif;< niont r only way out. SIR EDWARD CARSON'S ("T!io Times.") ,; . V (Received May 3rd. 9.45 p.m.) v>i

LONDON, MByV' c The Dublin correspondent of "Th*"' Times' states that Sir Edward OafronT has written to tho Southern Committee stating that in the pr6|&V--. condition of Ireland it is little of insanity that tho Government reopen the Homo Rule question And pare a hurried, new solution, placing land under the joint rule of tht> feiknff Fein. Nationalists, and the Thlfthfe Catholic hierarchy. It statesmanship manufactured • : ftfitf--'-panic and founded on broken and a brtach of trust. 7^B Sir Edward Carson njfusca to jy* sider any alliance. Jg,'