SITUATION IN IRELAND.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13981, 17 November 1917, Page 3

SITUATION IN IRELAND.

DISCUSSED IN HOUSE /OF LOEDB I ;' TALK OF,HEPTJBIf C. LORD-LIEUTENANT'S ASSURANCES. *

Per Cable—Press Association—Cop) right (Australian sM N Z. Cable Association) Recei\ed Xovembei 10, 8 35 pm

LONDON, Noiembei 15 In the Houso of Loids, Biion Chnp lin called attention to the gravity of the situation in Ii eland, The Sinn Femeis wero preaching sedition and dislojalt), and weie holding out as an inducement the establishment of a sepn rate Republic The Government ought to stop the campaign, out of consuleia tion foi tho lush Cou\enhou He condemned the Government's want of action, It was a moikciv to ask the Convention to sit while de A olera, M P., w is going ibout picaclung' delibciatc, cold-blooded incitements- to rebellion.

Lord Wimborue (Lord-Lioutenant of Ireland), replying, said ho could not recognise Baron.Chaplin's gloomy picture, despite,: the inflammable material, The gravest danger was the importation of arms or a hostile landing, Owing to the steps that had bcentuken, neither possibility was likely. The House of Lords must nbt make overmuch, of the* illegal, drilling of Sinn Feiners. They were not pro-Germans, cither in feeling or impulse. The idea of Ireland becoming, an independent Republic must always remain a dream.'