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IRELAND.

BOUNDARY TROUBLE. REPORT TO THE DAIL. FATEFUL DEBATE EXPECTED. (BY CABLE—FBZ3S ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT) (AUSTRALIAN AHD H.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION) (Received August 11th, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 11. Mr Cosgrave reports on the boundary negotiations to the Dail Eireann on Tuesday. A fateful debate is expected. The Labour and new Independent Parties are expected to oppose agreement to the delay of action till the British Parliament re-assembles. DE VALERA AGAIN. ADVOCATING REPUBLICANISM. (AUSTBJULIAN AHD 3T.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received August 11th, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 11. Mr Eamon de Valera re-entered the political arena at Ennis on Friday, advocating a policy of Constitutional Republicanism. The Clare County Council refused to vote him an address of welcome, be- | cause guarantees were not forthcoming | that he was coming to preach peace and . unity. "IN A FRIENDLY SPIRIT." ULSTER OFFER REPEATED. (AUBTEAIiIAJT ATO ».*. CABLM ASSOCIATION.' LONDON, August 10. Sir James Craig- (Prime Minister of Northern Ireland) has issued a statement in which he reiterates his offer to meet Mr W. T. Cosgrave (President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free, State), in a friendly spirit to settle the boundary question with the aid of expert opinion. Any other method of settlement, he says> would only reopen the whole Irish question with disastrous results to Ireland and the Empire. o Mr Austen Chamberlain, speaking at Northwfch (Cheshire) asked: "Cannot Sir James Craig and Mr Cosgrave take their courage into their own hands and strike out on a line which will deal evenhanded jusiice between the two States?" ' No Liberal or Conservative who was party to the Irish Treaty, he added, would agree to the bargaining away of Fermanagh and Tyrone. Great wisdom would be needed to prevent a national disaster.