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GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSAL. UNIONIST OPINION EST THE SOUTH-WEST. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, May 18. Lord Middleton, oil behalf off , the Unionists in the south-west of Ireland,in a letter to Mr Lloyd George, insisted that the Sinn Fein movement has gain": ed immensely in strength since the rebellion". Its operations were actively seditious. Its programme declared that its'aini is an lTish republic Any division of Ireland would enormously Increase the forces of disloyalty. The Southern Unionists were willing to consider the: possibility of a convention, and had already announced their readiness to entee a conference on the future government of the Empire after the war, hoping that the Irish question would be settled on broad Imperial lines,
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Nelson Evening Mail, 21 May 1917, Page 5
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119HOME RULE Nelson Evening Mail, 21 May 1917, Page 5
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