IRISH PEACE PROSPECTS.
CONDITIONS OF A TRUCE.
NO AMNESTY: NO REPUBLIC.
CESSATION OF MURDERS.
By Telegraph — Press Association—Copyright
Received 9.15 p.m.)
A. aiVi .s Z. — Reuter
LONDON, Dec. 8.
regarding lie prospects of an Irish 'rue. it. is Plated by the highest authority hut if it is agreed that Father '> 1 I.inn.igan s recent message represents the . full force 0 { Sinn Fein moderate - .pinion the Government's reply will cm-h-dy the following principles No arn-
• ■M*.. N.i republic, and the cessation of the campaign of outrage and murder. W.-ll informed circles believe that. *the Sinn I'pin organisation's repudiation of father O'Flnnrmgan's message is due to Sinn Fein fugitives from justice desiring r.n nir.nrstv.
The Star mj. that Mr. Lloyd George "= disappointed at the response to the Government's offer to negotiate with any nutr.ovity in Ireland competent to represent a large body of opinion. He has ar-n Mr. Arthur Henderson, M.P., who was able to say little except that there was ,i large Irish element anxious for peace, as the Prime Minister i s well «are. The Government insists that it is the duty of lenders of moderate opinion in Ireland to disown the physical force party. It is understood the colonial archbishop who i? >aid to lie interesting himself in the Irish peace question is Dr. Clune, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth. Dr. Clune saw the Prime Minister and gave him the results of his conversations with ci tain Sinn Fein leaders who desired a truce. It" is believed that Dr. Clune impressed Mr. Lloyd George and that his intervention has improved the prospects of peace.
FREEMAN'S JOURNAL CASE.
PROPRIETORS IMPRISONED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed 9."0 p.m.) LONDON. Dec. 8. The court-martial which found Fitzgerald and Edwards, proprietors of the Irish newspaper Freeman's .Journal, guilty of publishing false reports intended to cause disaffection, promulgated its sentences to-day. The two proprietors were sentenced to six months' imprisonment and the newspaper was fined £500.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17650, 10 December 1920, Page 7
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