CHAOS IN IRELAND

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18516, 29 March 1922, Page 5

CHAOS IN IRELAND

THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE IRISH LEADERS TO ATTEND. MR COLLINS PESSIMISTIC. \ SIR JAMES CRAIG’S ATTITUDE CONDEMNED. Frees Aaeociaticor—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 27. The Ulster Cabinet approved of Sir James Craig’s acceptance of the invitation to the London Conference. Mr Collins also accepted. Mr Collins made a statement that he would attend the conference in London, though the Provisional Government had not sought such a conference. The Tree State had been ever ready to reach an agreement with Sir James Cram, and had gone far to meet him. The Free State representatives had never broken any undertaking which they had given. Unfortunately, Sir James’Craig had not. been equally meticulous. He neither kept his undertakings nor attempted to meet the Free State on several controversial points. Though hoping for the best from the conference, Mr CoUins said he could not see any escape from a Northern impasse until Sir James Craig radically altered the inimical attitude towards the Free State and Belfast’s helpless minority. —A. and N.Z. Cable. PEOPLE IN GREAT DANGER. QUESTIONS IN THE COMMONS. LONDON, March 27. In the House of Commons, Mr Churchill, in replying to a shoal of questions on Ireland, said that undoubtedly a number of people were in great danger, as the recent outrages had shown. Facilities would be given to enable people to move to another part of Ireland or out of the country altogether.—A and N.Z. Cable. RAID IN DONEGAL, REPUBLICANS ATTACK FREE STATERS. LONDON, March 27. Republicans yesterday attacked the Neytown-Cunningham Police Barracks in Donegal, which were occupied by Free State troops. At the end of three hours’ rifle firing the attackers retired, leaving six prisoners. Several of the attackers were wounded.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE IRISH BILL. DEBATE IN THE LORDS. THIRD reading carried. LONDON, March 27. The House of Lords read the Irish Bill a third time without a division.—A. and N-Z. Cable, ATTACK ON LORD CARSON. ALLEGED MISUSE OF POSITION AS JUDGE. LONDON, March 27. /Received March 28, at 5.5 p.m.) In the House of Lords, the only feature of the debate on the Irish Bill was Lord Birkenhead’s "sharp attack upon Lord Carson for misusing his position as a judge. Lord Carson was absent owing to illness. Lord Birkenhead urged that if Lord Carson remained Law Lord he had no right to make political speeches. He said as a peer Lord Carson was entitled to express his views, but he had no right to make bitter taunts against members of the Government and to deliver partisan attacks on the Government’s policy. The position of the Law Lords was exactly the same as that of any other judge.—A. and N.Z. Cable.