PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 294, 6 April 1921, Page 5

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

WHAT BAIL EIJIEANN SAYS'.

(By Electric Teleiirapb.- Copyright.)

; LONDON, April 4. • The Times’ Dublin'correspondent states: “Dail, Firearm. says,that the British'Government has riot offered tlio slightest genuine indication that ii is prepared to negotiate on a basis likely to achieve success.’’ The correspondent adds that the responsibility to negotiate rests with the oflicials of Dail •Eircann and only confusion is caused by the futile interference of self-appointed negotiators, which musLceasc.—A. and N.Z. cable. MURDER BN GOLF LINKS. LONDON. April 4. The Sinn Fein murder at the Ashford golf links has created a sensation. A flying motor squad from Scotland Yard, comprising detectives who are all" skilled rcvplver idiots - ,' is" «Stfehing' ,f tlic district for the, murderers, \Vho arc believed to ■be in hiding. / A woman identified the dead man in the mortuary. She says he was recently on duty in Ireland, and was on leave when ho was murdered. The police have reconstructed the crime from mudstains and other indications on the body. They say the victim was taught a considerable distance away, and forced into a car by,two men, who together with the driver urov,> along the Kingston road to the golf course, where th c man was dragged frm the car and forced to kneel and say his prayers, then being killed by three revolver shots.—A. and N.Z. cable.

IRISH INCENDIARY’S PLEA.

REASON FOR FIRE RAISING.

Received April 6, 8.-15 a.m. LONDON, April 5. An Irishman charged at Hertford Police Court with setting lire to a stack stated when arrested: “ You set light to my country; I’ll do the same to yours.” His aged father, he said, had just been shot in Ireland,—A. and N.Z. cable. REPUBLICANS DRILLING. LONDON, April 5. A , largo number of women and children who were picknioking in the. mountains south of Dublin were nearly involved in a conflict .with' the Crown forces. Sixty civilians wore engaged _ in military manoeuvres, and the authorities at Dublin, learning of the manoeuvres, despatched several loads of auxiliaries, • who chased the Republicans across the country. The Republicans igniting a fuse, improvised a smalm screen. The police that many rebels mingled with the picknickers, preventing the police firing.—A. and N.Z. cable, ESMONDE CHARGED WITH SEDITrON. VANCOUVER, April 4. Grattan Esrnonde bus been arrested for seditious utterances.—A. and N.Z. cable. JCOUJMG,IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. LONDON, April 4. The Premier, replying to questions in the House of Commons, stated that the Irish question would , nol be included in the Imperial Conference agenda,—A. and N.Z. cable,