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Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 183, 4 August 1920, Page 5

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POSTPONED TILL AFTER

AUTUMN.

MODERATE OPINION IN

IRELAND

■ (Reuters Telegrams.) . (Received Aug. 3, 11.30 p.m.) • LONDON, Aug. 2. In 'the House of Commons, Mr

"MacCallum Scott suggested, in view ...of the disorders in Ireland, that the 'Government should reconsider its • decision to postnone the Hr>meßule Bill till after the a,utumn holidays.

Mr Lloyd George declared that v carrying the Bill befo™ the adjournment would not immediately end the • outrages in IrelandMr Devlin affirmed that the outrages were largely diie to resentment at the Government's proposal^. Mr Lloyd George replied that if he believed sr> he "would regard the " Irish situation as more desperate

•than ever, and a desperate situation would be create3~if the fnet that the ■*• Government was doing' its best to -satisfy the legitimate demands wer^ made an excuse for disorder and ■ outrage. Mr Devlin declared flint t'>e rrn- . posals were regarded in Ireland as an ~ insult. Mr Lloyd George replied that he could not hope that any measure carried t>y any British House of ■"Commons "would meet, the 'unreasonable demands which tho t^ilk nf tV Irish people, whom Mr Devlin did ■ not represent, were making. Mr Devlin declared that the ■' Government's policy was driving the moderates in Ireland into the camp

. of the extremists. Mr Lloyd George emphasised that the Government had done its best according to its view of what was right and fair for both parties in the British Isles. He did not apron that the moderates in Ireland , had ■anything to do with the outrages,, which he firmly believed were the ■work of a very small minority. Tho moderates were so terrorised that they dared not express their views, ' but there had recently been signs ' that modemte opinion had begun to assert itself. The latest instance was the very fearless verdict of wilful murder in the case of Colonel Brooke. Sir Hamnr Greenwood formally presented the Restoration of Order in Ireland Bill, which was read a first time without discussion. The text will be issued on August 3rd. Mr Bonar Law stated that a, jruillntine motion wouM bo proposed in ■ respect to the Bill on August sth.