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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 July 1916, Page 2

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mm mm. DELAY DANGEROUS. MR. REDMOND’S WARNING. [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.]

LONDON, July 20,

Mr. ,T. Redmpnd sent a. memorandum to Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George, as follows : —‘T feel bound to -tell you that the long delay in making public the terms of the Irish Bill and the uncertainty and irritation caused by Lord Lansdowne’s speech have created a most serious situation in Ireland. In my opinion further delav makes a settlement on the lines laid down by Mr. Lloyd George impossible. When the terms were originally submitted we strongly you to use all possible despatch. Con. suiting my supporters: in Ireland, I told them of the great Imperial - interest. at stake, and three: weeks have elapsed and 1 no progress has been made. For some mysterious reason the matter, which was so urgent five weeks ago, bangs fire. - I therefore urge the Government that further delay will be fatal. I record my conviction that any proposal to depart from the terms agreed upon, especially in respect ,to the strictly temporary and provisional character of all sections of the Bill, compel us to declare tint’ the agreement on the faith of which we obtained the assent of our supporters in Ireland has been departed fromand is at an end.” A large meeting of Nationalists at, Derry, representing Derry, Tyrone,' and Fermagh, passed a resolution opposing the exclusion of the Ulster counties, declaring that if a separateGovernment was established they would resist its authority. The Catholic Bishop of Derry wrote approving of the resolution.

GENERAL MAXWELL’S DESPATCH

THE PENALTY OF EASY-GOING

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LONDON, July 21

General Maxwell’s despatch, dealing with the Irish rebellion, says that the facility wherewith the Sinn Feiners were able to seize so many important points in Dublin was due to armed bodies of civilians being continually allowed to parade and march in. the streets of Dublin and throughout the country without interference, so that the movements of large civilian forces on a holiday passed unnoticed. During the whole fighting seven officers we're killed and 46 wounded, and in other ranks 89 were killed and 2zß wounded.

General Maxwell pays a high tribute to the behavior of the troops in carrying out disagreeable and distasteful duties. He emphasises that the responsibility for the loss, of life and destruction of property rests with those engineering the revolt and on, those who invited the assistance • anc| cooperation of the Germans.

A STRIKING MANIFESTO.

IRISH PROSPERITY,

A remarkable manifesto bearing on. tlie economic conditions in Ireland was recently issued by the Irish Nationalist Parliamentary Party as a yepH to Sinn Feinism. It said: “Two thirds of the entire land of the country has passed into the hands of tly, people. The remaining third is in process of gradual transfer, and the soil-of Ireland is now more securely vested in the people of Ireland than at any period of our country's histoiy. Tens of thousands of cottages have been built all over Ireland in which, at a moderate rent and with a portion of land, the Irish laborers have been transformed from the worsthoused, worst-clothed, and worst-fed class in Europe into the best-housed, the most comfortable, and the most independent body of laborers in tne world. In the congested districts grass ranches have been acquired and divided up into economic holdings for the people. Slated, roomy, and healthy hauses have taken the place of the miserable cabins, and there has; gioAvn np in some of the most poverty-strick-en districts in the North-West, West, and South of Ireland a new-Ireland of happy and ■ prosperous homes. . . • In so far .as the local government of Ireland is concerned- it has been wrenched from, the landlords and is now in entire possession of the people, with chairmen and members freely chosen by the people themselves. . • Hard as are the conditions of many of the workmei). of Ireland in the cities, unhealthy as still are many of their dwellings, grants and Acts Have begun the great work of providing healthy and cheap homes for the toilers- In every effort to put down sweating, the abuse of the truck sys--tem, the efficient administration of the Factory Acts, the safeguarding of the right of combination, and the protection of the interests of trade unions, the Irish National Party have been able to extend to Ireland every benefit that (the popular representatives of Great Britain have been able to- oh-

tain, for their constituents. • •. The tenants in the towns have achieved a charter far in excess of anything ever extended to any city or town in England. With England, Ireland has been able to share to the full in the programme of social I'eform. Old age pensions have brought comfort and hope to tens of thousands of old men and women who otherwise would have had an old age of poverty and despair.”