REPLY FROM IRELAND.

Grey River Argus, 5 June 1922, Page 5

REPLY FROM IRELAND.

FOUND SATISFACTORY. (Received .Tune 4, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 3. The British Cabinet has received the Irish Provisional Government’s reply to six definite questions Which it asked. The Cabinet regards the answers as sufficiently satisf: ctory to allow the negotiations to continue. Mr Arthur Griffiths (head of the Irish Provisional Government) went to Dublin after submitting to the British Cabinet the Free State’s answers to the six questions. He returns next week to resume negotiations. OTHER SIDE OF THE PICTURE. BRITISH PREPARE IN ULSTER FOR WAR. LONDON, June 3. It is slgnfieant that British military preparations are now proceeding in Belfast. Belf: st now has the biggest military garrison it over hrd in its history. Infantry forces are arriving daily, and also field artillery, and seige guns, and airmen. British troops have now replaced the Ulster “specials” on the Fermanagh border. There are two huge armies face to face on the Fermanagh border. The military commandant of Londonderry prohibits the export of motor spirit oil into County Donegal, by either road, rail, or sea. This is expected to paralyse the Republicans, who have a fleet of commandeered motor ears. IRISH ELECTIONS. THE CANDIDATES OUT. (Rec. June 4, at 5.5 p.m.) (Reuter Telegrams.) LONDON, June 3. Lists of Coalition candidates, as a result from the Collins-De Valera agreement, are published. They include only four non-members of the present Dail Eireann. There are 124 candidates for 128 seats. The four Dublin University seats are not being contested by the Coalition. The Famous Commandant Breen was nominated by both sides, making the nominal total 125, of whom sixtysix are pro-treaty, and fifty-nine anti-treaty Independent candidates, however, are likely to produce contests «n a score of constituencies. The Farmers Union and Labour each have about twenty candidates ready.

ULSTE RRAISES A NAVY. [United Service.) (Received June 4, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 1. The “Evening News” states: Ulster has raised a picturesque little motor boat navy. It is commanded by a woman. Her flagship is the yacht “Pandora,” which she owus. The Ulster Fleet is in Lough Erne. It is patrolling the shores. The Ulster Navy is preventing any supplies from reaching some Sinn Feiners who are encamped at Pettigo. A remarkable story is told of the saving of a police garrison at Ballynameena Castle by the help of the lady owner of the yacht Pandora. She is Mrs Laverton, who is well acquainted with Lough Erne. She insisted on accompanying a relief expedition aboard the vessel, and at a critical moment she herself weighed anchor under fire. The garrison were finally evacuated. REPUBLICAN FORCE NEAR DERRY (Received Junne 4, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 3. The “Evening News” says: “A determined siege of Londonderry seems imminent. Two camps containing several hundred Republicans, who arc splendidly equipped, have been established north and south of the city. The position is most critical.

BELFAST TERRORISM. FURTHER ATROCITIES. LONDON, June 3. In Belfast several men called at the home of a Belfast doctor, and asked if ho were in. A servant, named Susan McCormack, replied “No.” The men then poured petrol over the girl, and set fire to her. She was sent to a hospital in a most serious condition. A crowd attempted to rescue seven men arrested in Belfast for looting, and opened fire on the police, who replied, killing one man. On Friday Belfast had a quiet day. To-day there were only two attempts to murder, and one death. A Magistrate sentenced a number of men, found with revolvers, to 18 months’ hard labour. The police found an arsenal concealed in a sniper’s attic in Belfast, coptaining rifles, revolvers, grenades and thousands of rounds of ammunition.