AN UNWANTED BILL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 October 1924, Page 5

AN UNWANTED BILL.

A PEER’S DIFFICULTY

WITH IRISH PROBLEM

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, LONDON, Sept. 29. Realising the improbability of being able to participate in the Ulster boundary debates, Viscount Long, a few days before his death,,, sent a memorandum to Lord Selborne stating: “I most reluctantly took over charge of the 1920 Bill. The measure found no support anywhere. The Liberals boycotted it, the bulk of the Conservatives only supported me through personal appeal, and Ulstermen stood coldly aloof. They did not want the Bill and were not inclined to support it.

"I saw Lord Carson and Sir James Craig, and concluded that it would be only possible to ,obtain the support of Ulstermen by giving a definite pledge on behalf of the Cabinet to six counties that it would he to their good, all without interference to the boundaries, except slight adjustments to get rid of projections. 1 ’ Viscount Long added that he brought this before Cabinet, which unanimously authorised this definite promise.'

A REPUBLICAN ARRESTED. , LONDON, Sept. 29. Robert Kelly, a leading Newry Republican and former Free State internee,' was arrested by the Ulster constabulary When he was returning to the Free State after delivering a dramatic speech at Newry.