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j ALLEGEDLY BROKEN I 1 IRISH LAND PURCHASES. SURPRISE VOTE IN LORDS. - (Received 11.33 a.m.) LONDON, February 4. >r Lord Oranmore moved in the House u of Lords the appointment of a select 8- committee to report whether the it Crown’s pledges of 1920 and 1923 e, had been fulfilled in regard to com>r pletion of the Irish land purchases d simultaneously with the passing of rl Home Rule. He asserted that nond fulfilment of the pledges had ruined o some Irish owners. The Lord Chancellor did not agree tt that there had ever been a promise g which would place a charge upon tt British funds in favour of Southern is Irish landowners. It was arranged if that the Free State should carry out d the pledges under its Land Act. r- The motion was carried by 35 votes to 33, amid cheers and cries of “Resign!”—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 5 February 1926, Page 5
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