DUBLIN DISAPPOINTED.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14408, 19 May 1917, Page 5

DUBLIN DISAPPOINTED.

ALL PARTIES SUSPICIOUS.

PROTESTANT BISHOPS URGING ■rvi&M j.- v is .c.'iViJj-iN T.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

T^ T . , V*r?ton, May 17. ±ne Lnst proposal*,- havo aroused disappomtment at Dublin. All sections of the National* reject the partition basis, but tho s^.tion of an Irish Lonvor.tion is reirardod as feasible While the Nationalists onniwde t? at some advance hew Wti ™rV, th(iy £ ar there are traps which- will vitiate "tho P«P«als The Sinn T«»o rs a ,A^ influenced by tho repent; statements of the Catholic and Protestant Pishops repudiate partition in any form Many southern Unionists ?re. slisnioious "and Teisf r -i Pr°P°^^ a? unworkable" while Ulster is likely to be prohriiced owing to the absence of definite financial proposals.

Arct bishop Crozier and Bishops Day Peacock, Moore, and Darcy have issued a statement advocating the postponement of the question until' the Imperial Constitution is reorganised after the war. A hasty conclusion will only increase the confusion.

The ''Freeman's Journal* predicts prompt. rejeH^Vv. %-,,+ +v« rv,,,. OT , + ; on suggestion implying admission of the acceptance of Ho^^Ru^ o« +h & [i ßes Irishmen tftemselvos determine is wortlrv of con«K?eration.

.A deputation of Catholics has been at Dublin for some days. Tf partition proposals ""o - ■•'•-- '* .. - am . paign will be started to defeat them. Mr Redmor>d -.-r-.-i.-^r' ~:- „. , Pt j no . of Nationalist?? >« Tntiflnn Tx-h?Vb r]e^ cided on a certain course of action which will be embodied in a letter to Mr Lloyd Geonre. statincr that the Nationalists fre nronarod to r""^mmend that the Convention condition be fully and fairly represented to Irisfcmen of all creeds. "