IRISH PROBLEM.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16208, 10 May 1918, Page 6

IRISH PROBLEM.

Home rule and conscription.

(By Cable.—Proes Association.- -opyrightj I Australian and X.Z Cable Association Tplrjrnms.)

LONDON. May 8. The '-Daily TelegraphV Dublin cop. respondent says that Lord French's appointment is regarded as proof that the Government intends to adopt ft strong attitude in regard to seditions propaganda and illegal trading, now conimou in tho west and south of Ire. land.

The Sinn Feinors until yesterdij looked for the complete success of their policy of colonial Home Rule as a stop to entire independence. They are iior raising n clamour against Lord French's appointment as likely to limit the Sinn rein activities. '1 lie Irish moderates believe that in- ' tunidatinn will cease directly Lord French assumes office. The "Daily Chroniclo's" Dublin oor- •' respondent says that the assertion of * l'reeman's Journal" that Lord French's appointment means ft military dictatorship finds little acceptance. •" iiord trench is very popular, and the Government niado every attempt to find a £!, vllian successor to Lord Wimbome. ' The "Manchester Guardian" says ' that the Government intends to go straight ahead -\vitli Homo Rule ondl • Irish conscription. The order applying i conscription will probably be issued alter the Home Rulo Bill hafc betin redd tho second time. There is Ho ihtentioh of waiting until tho measure has been - enacted. 5 The Scottish Notionalist Committee is asking the Government to frame the . Irish Homo Rule Bill with a view to the - immediate extension of a fiiinilar mod- . suro to bcotland, and a complete federal t\ scheme for the United Kingdom, The Unionist leaders have called a , party ineotmg to discuss tho Goferfcment s Irish nroposals. Sir Edward Carsdn, i n the course of Vi a letter to the Press, proposing Union- J ist. reconsideration of tho Irish policy, ! in view of tho recrtnt anti-conscripl ion manifestations, declares that the Got- '?< possesses the cloarest evidenoe: tlirtt tho Sinn Fein organisation is in ■,« alliance with Germahy. 9 Sir Edward Carson asserts that tho "■ljl action of tlio Nationalists. Sinn Fein- 4 era, and the Roihatt Catholic hioi'drohy % has demonstrated the uselesstiess of Im-' peri a 1 reservations and paper safeguards J in any Irish settleffieht. He asks if J the Government intends to enforce con-- J scnption, of which he is most doubtful. M Tho Press Bureau says that civilian passengers between Great Britain and "J Ireland must possess a permit.