PEACE FOR IRELAND

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10811, 29 January 1921, Page 8

PEACE FOR IRELAND

VIEWS OF DE VALERA DAIL XVIRBANN READY TO EXAMINE PROPOSALS. TILT AT THE PREMIER. Rr Telegraph— Press Assn.—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, January 27. The newspaper ‘ ‘Oeuvre’ 9 says: *Whafc Scotland Yard and the police of the United Kingdom were unable £•:> do, the editor has achieved, in a personthl interview with De Valera, in firince/* De Valent said that if Britain recognised the Irish people’s right :o dispose of their own fate, the difficulties of the Crown and Ulster* would disappear. If the Ulsterites demanded atttomomy in an Irish State, the Sinn Fein wvm willing to grant it. “What Mr Lloyd George told the Press regarding the peace offers by the Sinn Fein matters little,” said De Valera. “What Mr Lloyd George says to-day he will*,, without concern, contradict tomorrow', if it suits his policy. The I>aal Eiroann is ready to examine any peace proposals which do not oppose its mandate.” MORE CONSTABLES MURDERED LONDON, January 27. Five men in the hotel bar rushed upstairs at closing time, shot two constables dead in bed, and wounded a third seriously. Two barmen were arrested. LORD DUNSANY'B ARREST LONDON, January 27. Lord Dunwjny was reai-rested after being released on bail, and. was removed to -an unknown destination.