IRELAND

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 October 1922, Page 5

IRELAND

ULSTER AND THE FREE STATE (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, Ocv. 11. Sir James Craig, in a message to Glasg; w Orangemen, states that he is prepared to act in friendly co operation with t!i: Sniihtern Parliament towards peace for all Ireland. Afr Higgins, in Die Daii, announced Dial the present Assembly, after 6th Deccmb ”. would function is ‘.he Parliament of the Free State provided members look the prescribed oaths, and that Parliament would remain in existence for six months until the Adult Suffrage Bill passed into law. The committee stage of t.'-e Oonafcitu tion Bill is completed. The Treaty, forming the second schedule of the Bill, was- also carried. HIERARCHY'S PASTORAL LONDON, Oct. 12. At Dublin Dio bodies of six young nun, hdjeved to be irregulars, were discovered at Westmeath, The postmaster of Sonna, mi arriving to open Die otlico, found three dead inside, and Die remainder in a nearby field. Two unarmed Free State officers wore sn imisly wounded while leaving Anniscorfhy 'Cathedral. The significance of the Hierarchy’s pastoral cannot be over-estimated. It is the strongest and most compromising i liurch document in living memory and ranges all the powers and influence of flic Church definitely on the side of the Treaty. The Government thought that while the bishops should have spoken long before. the pronouncement now will he a definite contribution to the restoration of public order.