IRELAND

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 October 1921, Page 7

IRELAND

SINN FEIN ANNOUNCEMENT

SERIOUS VIEW BY GOVERNMENT.

HX CABLE—PRKBS ABBOCIATION—COJPY.HIOHI LONDON, Oct. 13.

The Daily Telegraph says the expressions of the Irish delegates immediately after the conference suggested that the discussion had been animated. This h supported by the answer Mr Collins gave to an American journalist, who asked: "When are you coming back?" Mr Collins quickly retorted: "I am not coming back." Mr Griffith, however, tactfully leaned out of his car and said, "We are coming back to-morrow morning." The Telegraph adds that the British Government takes a serious view of the Sinn Fein announcement that the Republican courts will sit all over Ireland. It is untrue to say ,a crisis has yet been reached, but the difference* are pronounced.