IRISH TREATY BILL.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2076, 17 March 1922, Page 5

IRISH TREATY BILL.

11 LORD’S SECOND READING. e e [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] l f [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] 0 LONDON, March 15. L- In the House of Lords, Viscount o Peel, in moving the second reading of r the Irish Treaty Bill, said he thought e the delay in holding the Irish elections had many advantages. A slow, n steady movement had arisen among e the Irish people against De Valera e and in favour of the Treaty, e Lord Lansclowne thought the Bill tampered with the very foundations s of the Constitutional system. He was S an unrepentant Unionist, but he 11 realised also that the Unionist policy 0 had been thrown overboard, and that e I the rejection of the Bill would, extin- ) Iguish the only ray illuminating the i melancholy horizon. The Govern--1 ment was riding for a fall over the £ Ulster boundary. Lord Haldane believed the only al- ' teratiive to the Treaty ’>as civil war, costing endless blood and treasure. The debate was then adjourned.