IRISH TREATY

Evening Star, Issue 17927, 24 March 1922, Page 4

IRISH TREATY

A DELICATE POSITION.

FROSTIER THE SANGER SPOT,

Press -Association—By Telegraph-—Copyright.

LONDON, March 22

In the House of Lords, in committee on tho Irish Bill, Lord l Haldane said l that peers who were introduced into the House as judges should bo sparing in the exercise of their legislative powers.' Lord Cuiv-on said that if ho had thought ho was to bo restrained in this matter he would have resigned his office. Lord Birkenhead stated that he advised Lord Carson that ho occupied a peculiar position—ono that, was different from that of the other Law Lords.

Lord Carson said: be was prepared to withdraw his amendment.

Lord Birkenhead stated that the grave situation existing on the frontier was a menace to the translatkxof tho agreement into successful practice. lie -Loped! that if the two Irish Prime Ministers met they would arrange a neutral zone between the contesting parties, to lie occupied by troops •until the boundary question is dually settled. Tho amendment -was withdrawn. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

LORD BIRKENHEAD'S STATEMENT

DE VALERA BEATEN

PROVIDED PEACE PRESERVED ON FRONTIER.

LONDON, March 22.

The Government was defeated by 42 votes to 40 in the House of Lords on Lord Dufferin’s amendment providing that the British Government shall definitely guarantee compensation to Civil servants in tho Irish Free State.

Viscount Peel said that officials had a Government guarantee; but it would 1 be foolish to put it into a Bill, because it would be an invitation to the Free State Government to repudiate its liability. „ Lord Birkenhead said that all the information which the Government bad showed that Mr Do Valera was a beaten man. If they could only prevent civil war- on the frontier, the treaty would be accepted by Ireland by a larger majority than it secured in the British Parliament. The committee stage of the Bill has con-cluded^-—A. and N.Z. Cable. -

SNIPING ON FRONTIER

LONDON, March 22,

Considerable sniping is going on along the Irish frontier. The Border Commissioners, who arc British officers, are powerless to stop the sniping, which is chiefly from houses, against tbo Ulster outposts. The Ulstermen do not return the fire, which is accurate, as the Sinn Feinors are evidently in possession of up-to-date telescopic sights.—A, and N.Z. Cable.

CONTROL OF THE BORDER

MR CHURCHILL’S OPINION,

LONDON, March 22,

Mr Churchill, speaking in the House of Commons, said lie thought that the whole question of the measures necessary to control the border must he reviewed at an early date by the Government. Meanwhile nothing was more important than that a meeting should take place between the heads of the Northern and Southern Governments. It was a question whether a cordon of troops should not be placed between the two countries.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

REPUBLICAN ARMY.

AN OFFICER’S VIEWS,

LONDON, March 22

Commandant Roderick U’Connor, who is attached to the headquarters of the Republican army, interviewed, said- that 80 per cent, of the army considered that the Bail Eireann had 1 no moral right to vote for the treaty. Questioned if the Army Executive would refuse its consent to the Government being set up by the people, and if it would set up a military dictatorship, Commandant O’Connor said : “Call it what you. like.’’ —A. and N.Z. Cable.