AN IRISH CONFERENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18463, 26 January 1922, Page 5

AN IRISH CONFERENCE

PROCEEDINGS IN PARIS,' V RELEASE OF PRISONERS URGED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. r 'l • PARIS, January 24. • , Messrs de Valera and Boland;} MSsfi-q; M'Swiney, the-Countess other rejectionist members of 1 the ' I lari' ’ Eireann, are attending the first-' Trjsh !, .World Conference, which was opened here h to ; 14 Irish counties being ropne* sented. Lord Ashbourne is among* thpee; ; ' present. \ f , A’resolution .was, adopted directingiijajsjMj tention to the British Government’s viri»"j dictiveness in keeping in orison men and.,"^ women whose only crime has been ing their- motherland.—Reuter. 1 : ' DR CLEARY PRESIDES, • PARIS, JanuarV' - 25. . J ■ (Received Jan. 26, at 8.30 pim.) . ’'ln The Rev. Dr Cleary, of Auckland, pro-” j; sided at the Irish Congress in the absence';) of Dr M. J. O’Reilly, of- Sydrieyy who ig suffering from influenza. Chi the motion of Mr de Valera a restv* t lution was carried that ''it wks the dutjri'&l of the /affiliated .associations throughout the world to secure facilities to study, Irish history and language, music, -dahe- \\ ing, and art, as well as games, .including • 'hurling the handball.—A. and N.Z. Cablo* *