THE NEW IRELAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18465, 28 January 1922, Page 9

THE NEW IRELAND

PACT WITH ULSTER. A VALUABLE TREATY. STATEMENT BY MR COLLINS. Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 26. Mr Cbllms, in the course of an interview, said that the result of the meeting between Sir James Craig and himself was that the North and South would settle their differences themselves. “We have eliminated British interference,” he said. Mr Collins added that Sir James Craig took the initiative, but he knew that Sinn Fern would respond. —A. and N.Z. Cable. THE PARIS CONGRESS. IRELAND'S TRADE DEVELOPMENT. PARIS, January 27. (Eocmred Jan. 27, at 8.5 p.m.) A. New Zealand delegate to the Irish Congress described as claptrap S> suggestion- that Ireland should boycott British goods. He added that it would pay Irishmen to remember that commerce knew no nationality. Irish trade must aim at the best markets wherever they were to be found, and must for a long time bo dependent on British shipping. Ireland was still id the “spade and potato” stage of development and her welfare depended on getting ont of it as soon as possible. Her water power, which was sufficient for her population of 10,000,000, must be pressed into service as had been done in New Zealand.—A. and KZ. Cable. THE RAILWAY DISPUTE. SETTLEMENT ANNOUNCED. LONDON, January 26. (Received Jan. 27, at 5.5 p.m.) A Dublin message states that the SouthEastern railway dispute has been settled. —A. said NJZL Cable. ISOLATED DISTURBANCES. TROUBLE AT MALLOW. LONDON, January 26. : (Received Jan. 27, at 5.5 p.m.) Following upon a labour, dispute Major Hallman, the proprietor of a flour mill at Mallow, was kidnapped while motoring. A fortnight later the Republican police found and released him. Meanwhile armed men as a reprisal kidnapped the local transport workers’ secretary when he was addressing the strikers. Feeling is running high, and the workers have now taken possession of the flour-mills and hoisted the Red f lag. Men hidden by the roadside behind a hedge fired on Mr Buggy, sub-sheriff of Clonmel, who was motoring with a party of police and bailiffs executing the Land Commission and Board of Works’ decrees. A police sergeant was wounded, and Mr Buggy was 1 kidnapped, but he was subsequently released.—A. and NJS. Cable.