FORECAST FROM DUBLIN

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 48, 25 August 1921, Page 7

FORECAST FROM DUBLIN

REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLE NOT

INSISTED ON

BRITAIN TO CLEAR AMBIGUITIES^

(UNITID PHBJS ASSOCIATION.—COPTWiHT.)

(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON, 24th August.

The Dail Eireann, after considering the Teply to Britain, adjourned. A further private sitting will be .held on Thursday.

The Daily Chronicle's Dublin correspondent, forecasting the reply, says :— "The Dail Eireamn will reaffirm its adherence to the republican principle, but will not insist upon it, in view of tile enormous cost of lives and money entailed. The Dail Eireann' will siiggest that Mr. Lloyd George, by issuing General Smuts's letter, has tacitly adopted General Smuts' 6 interpretation of the British offer, and will point out that, in the opinion of the Dail Eireann, the offer does not confer Dominion status. It will enumerate the objections thereto, and invite Mr. Lloyd George to reply, in order that no ambiguities may remain to cloud the issue. The Dail Eireann , will probably suggest that if the Ulster difficulty oannot be composed, Ulster should be. excluded from any benefits and privileges granted to the South, apart from those she already holds. The Sinn Feiners believe that if this _ is done Ulster will soon be tempted to join the' South."