PERMANENT PEACE HOPES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 9 May 1921, Page 5

PERMANENT PEACE HOPES.

DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENTS

S«ON,

SEEN WEXK STILL ACTIVE.

LONDON, May 8. The Sunday Express states that dra nratie developments are possible in the next moni!h in +he s direetion of permanent ipeace in Ireland. Powerful influences are still working tow&nfis peace. tLord Derby is continuing.his; inquiries secretly; Sir Edward Careon remains m politics for a few weelcs before joining the Appeal Court Bench,, in the hope that he may help to secure a Settlement. , Mr Lloyd George, at Maidstone, said he was delighted that Sir James Craig and De Valera nad met and discussed Ireland's future. He could not >say •what might ensue, 'but it was a good sign tliat they were aible .to diseusß things together. De Valera writes' in. a'i conciliatory •tone to the Irish Independent. He says: "We shall never cease to maintain there is community of interest "between our countrymen in the northeast corner of Ireland and our people in the south arid west.. We believe Ul■stermen, in spite of their misunderstandings and prejudices, which} are mostly artificially created, look upon i Ireland as their coHintry, and in .their Hearts cherish the Irish name. Ulster felt profoundly in the eighteenth century her unity with Ireland, and shall do so again. vMay that day be soon. ' Sir James Craig, speaking at, Holywood, hoped the expectations for an immediate peace might not prove too high. The first step was always most difficult, ibut he did not believe a big man would refuse to take the first step wlien so much was at stake. Thomas Collins, ah ex-serviceman, was fatally 'shot, at Youghal, County Cork, after leaving a dance at the military barracks. Patrick Lanniss and Essie Sheehand, who were accompanying Collins, were seriously, wounded. A police party travelling in a motor lorry were ambushed in West^Meath. Sergeant, Murray was killed. A police patrol was .. ambushed at Newton, Tipperary. .Sergeant Kingston was killed.