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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXXI, 8 June 1916, Page 7

IRELAND.

SUCCESS OF NEGOTIATIONS PRE- I DICTED. i v EVIDENCE AT SKEFFINGTON MURDER TRIAL. (Received June 8, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 7. The Manchester Guardian forecasts that Mr Lloyd George will succeed in settling the Irish problem. I A Kitchener Army doctor gaVe evidence at the court-martial that Cap- i tain Colthouse was unstrung and in a etate of mental instability. , The defence pleaded that Colthouse, ' owing to wounds received at Mons and the Aisne, was m a complicated condi- j lion. He had advanced in direct opposition to orders at Mons, showing that he was irresponsible and lacked self control. ! Judgment was reserved. !