IRELAND.

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IRELAND.

SETTLEMENT DELATED. MR. REDMOND’S WARNING. [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN.] London, July 21. I Mr. Redmond (Nationalist Leader) sent a memorandum to Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George as follows: — I feel bound to tell you that long delay in making public the text 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 delay makes a settlemen on the lines laid by Mr. -Lloyd George quite impossible. When the terms were originally submitted we were strongly urged to -use all possible despatch in consultI ing our supporters in Ireland, and I were told that great Imperial in- | terests were at stake. Three weeks I have elapsed and no progress has been made. For some mysterious reason the matter, which was so urgent five weeks ago, hangs fire. I therefore urge the Government that further delay will be fatal, and record the conviction that any proposal to depart from the terms agreed on, especially with respect to the strictly temporary and provisional character of the bill will compel us to declare the agreement, on the faith of which we obtained the assent of our supporters in Ireland, has been departed from and is at an end. NORTHERN NATIONALISTS. OPPOSE EXCLUSION. [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN.] London, July 21. A large meeting of Nationalists in Derry, representing Derry, Tyrone and Fermanagh, passed a resolution opposing the exclusion of the Ulster counties and declaring that if a separate Government was established they would resist its authority. The Catholic Bishop of Derry wrote approving the resolution. THE DUBUN~TRAGEDY. GENERAL MAXWELL’S REPORT [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN.] London, July 21. General Maxwell’s despatch on the Irish rebellion attributes the facility wherewith the Sinn Feiners were able to seize so many important points in Dublin to the presence of armed bodies of civilians who were continually allowed to parade and march in the streets of Dublin and throughout the county without interference, so that the movement of large civilian forces on the holiday passed unnoticed. During the whole of the fighting 17 officers were killed and 46 wounded. Other ranks had 89 killed and 228 wounded. General Maxwell pays high tributes to the behaviour of the troops in carrying out their disagreeable and distasteful duties. He emphasises that, the responsibility for the loss of life and destruction of property rests with those engineering the revolt, who invited the assistance and co-opera-tion of the Germans.