HOME RULE BILL

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12016, 4 March 1920, Page 4

HOME RULE BILL

United Press Aasociafeion—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. London, Feb 2. The Times, in a leader, says: The Home Rule Bill exceeds the strict demands of justice to Ultaer. The Government Is profoundly mistaken in substituting a joint council for the structure of an Irish Parliament, and has flouted the traditional ideal of tne Irish people for the sake of placating the sensitiveenss of Ulsterites, who are left insufficient inducements to co-operate with the southerners. The success of the whole scheme, however, depends upon Parliamentary amendments to the Bill, which, even as it stands, is pref enable to inaction. London, March 1.

The Sunday Pictorial says that as a result of secret conferences, leading Irishmen and Sinn Feiners are willing to accept Dominion’s Home Rule, excluding six Ulster counties.