IRISH BOUNDARIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1923, Page 5

IRISH BOUNDARIES

ULSTER REJECTS COMMISSION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 21. * President Cosgrave in the Dail Eireann, said that the time had arrived for a settlement of the Northern Boundary question. The boundary, under the Act of 1920, was drawn in an. arbitrary fashion. The Free State wished to see as lew disconnected people on boll), sides of the border as possible. He announced the appointment of Professor John Mac Neil as the Free State Government’s representative on the Boundary Commission. Sir James Craig states that Ulster will refuse to recognise the Boundary Commission as she never agreed to it. The “Morning Post’s” Belfast correspondent points out that, if there is no Northern representative on the commission, it cannot sit, and also says: Sir James Craig is willing to agree to an adjustment by agreement, exchanging a bit of territory in one place for a bit in another, but he will not enter any conference which might enable outside influences to transfer large areas in Ulster to the Free State. GENERAL ELECTION PROSPECTS. LONDON, June 22. The Dail Eireann decided that the general election be held before September. The country generally seems disposed to give the Government a rnnewed lease of life. De Valera issued a statement that it is not the intention of the Republicans to renew the war in the autumn or after, adding: “The war is finished. We intend to devote ourselves to social reform, but shall continue to deny the right of any foreign authority to control Ireland.” flWl JBSSBCI JSnEnSKEffffffIOTMQJKHVtZFWftp