IRELAND

Evening Star, Issue 18093, 7 October 1922, Page 3

IRELAND

CONSTITUTION DEBATES.

SAFE GOVERNMENT MAJORITIES.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, October 5. Dail Eireann discussed the article In the Constitution providing for the assent of Parliament to Ireland’s participation in any war except in the event of actual invasion.

Air Darrell Figgis moved an amendment providing that the decision should bo by referendum of the people. Mr Johnson (Labor) said that some of the nations in the British Commonwealth were very Imperialistic—New Zealand, for instance. He warned Dail against being driven into a war by overseas capitalistic interest* under a humanitarian plea. The amendment was lost by 42 vote* to 19.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

PEACE IMPERATIVE,

BANKRUPTCY THE ALTERNATIVE.

LONDON, October 5. A meeting of Dublin business men and ratepayers passed a resolution advocating a conference to consider the situation,_ the conference to consist of six pro-treatyites, six anti-treatyites, and representatives of Trinity College and the National University, with six ratepayers. The proposer said that without peace they would be paupers in six months.—A. and N.Z. able.

REBEL CAMPAIGN.

DESTRUCTIVE AND FUTILE METHODS.

LONDON, October 6. (Received October 7, at 12.20 a.m.) While Dail Eireann ■ is hammering _ou* the Constitution, the rebels are ing their campaign of killing and robbing. They are not displaying any definite tendency to accept the offeied amnesty. Armed robberies are increasing-' in Dublin city. They are small individually, but • accumulatively they are seriously dislocating the social and business life of the people.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

IN THE NORTH.

THE EXCLUDED COUNTIES.

EXODUS OF PROTESTANTS

LONDON, October 6. (Received October 7, at 12.20 a.m.)

Sniping has recurred in Belfast, where a woman shopper was shot dead. Hundreds of Protestants are abandoning their homes in the three excluded Ulster counties, and are going to America. Some districts are practically denuded of their Protestant inhabitants. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

BARTON ARRESTED

LONDON, October 6. (Received October 7, at 12.20 a.m.)

Robert Barton, one of the plenipotentaries who signed the treaty, and who seceded to the rebels, was arrested in Dublin.—A. and N.Z. Cable.