THE HOME RULE BILL.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4019, 8 June 1920, Page 5

THE HOME RULE BILL.

TRANSFER OF IRISH CONSTABULARY. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Aust.-N.Z. Cable Association.) ' London, June 5. In the House of Commons on the Home Rule Bill, the Government accepted an amendment providing that t!h© transfer of the Irish Constabulary shall not be made until three years after the Bill comes into operation;

Mr Walter Long promised favourable consideration of a suggestion by Sir Edward Carson that when the two Parliaments by an identical Act galled for the transfer of the Royal Irish Constabulary it should be wound up, its members suitably compensated,' and schemes for a police force framed by both Parliaments. Mr Long also undertook to consider favourably a . suggestion that during the transition period control of the Constabulary should be vested in a Minister and not in a comittee of five as proposed in the Bill. Mr Long stated that if the forecasts made by many speakers were true, and if the only use made by the Soutjhern Parliament of its powers .was to try and establish a republic of a Government unworthy ot the name of Government, the Bill would be suspended, and would not come into operation, and the Imperial Parliament would be, .compelled to take euch action as would be necessary to restore order. NO CONDONATION FOR MURDER. London, J une G. , Mr National Wocretary, addressing a meeting of railwayinen at Battersea, said no Government, not (even ft' Labour Government would, tolerate the murder of innocent policemen, and soldiers. He was syinpatnetic With Ireland, ,but he could not conjdone murders. A special Labour Conference has been summoned, at which tno Irish railwaymen will be invited to state their case.' (Received June 8, noon.) London, June 7. Fifteen thousand miners in the Bymney Valley, Wales, struck work in sympathy with. 2000 men in the Bafgoed Colliery, who had struck as A protest against the practice ot knocking out timber on the conveyor faces in th& daytime, instead of at jOijght. • . :'- ■.■..." ■ .■•■ •■