SINN FEIN POLICY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 January 1921, Page 3

SINN FEIN POLICY.

No Objection to Ulster Home Rule, INTERVIEW WITH BE VALERA. .By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, 1 (Per Press Association .7 Received this day, 9.20 a.m, Paris, January 27. The newspaper Oeuvre says that what Scotland Yard) and the United Kingdom police were unable to do its editor has achieved) in securing a personal interview with Do Valera in France. Die Valera stated that if Britain recognised the Irish people’s right to aispose of their own fate the difficulties of- the Grown and Ulster would) disappear. If the Ulsterites demand autonomy in the Irish State, the Sinn Fein is willing to grant it. D© Valera added :“What Lloyd George told the press regarding the peace offers to the Sinn Fein matters little. What Lloyd George says today he will without concern contradict to-morrow if it suits his policy. The Bail Eireann is ready to examine any peace proposals which do not oppose its mandate.”

Cowardly Murders. CONSTABLES SHOT IN THEIR BEDS, Received this day, 9.20 a.m. ■ London, January 27. Two constables were killed and one seriously wounded while asleep in a Belfast hotel. Five men were in the Hotel bar and they rushed upstairs at closing time and shot dead the two constables and wounded a third seriously. Two barmen have been arrested. John Bradfiield, a Protestant farmer, was found executed at Bandon, as an alleged anti-Republican. It transpires that men in military uniform questioned Bradfield, who believed they were British officers, but they were really Sinn Feinefs. The Royalists declare that such tactics place them in a terrible dilemma.

Irish Lord Arrested. IN POSSESSION OF AMMUNITION. Received this day, 9.20 ta.m. London, January 27. Lord Lunsany was arrested at Trim, County Meath, for having ammunition in his possession. He was liberated on bail. Later. According to information reaching Paris Lord Lunsany was re-arrested after being released on bail and was removed) to an unknown destination. Lord Lunsany is head of the Plunkett family and served in the war in the Inniskilling Fusiliers and Coldstream Guards. He was wounded in 1916. and is a well-known author and playwright.