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Waikato Independent, Volume XXII, Issue 2550, 25 May 1922, Page 5

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SINN FEIN ROUND-UP. ■ BETWEEN 300 AND 400 ARREST** By Cable-Press Association-Copyrighß (Received 11 a.m.) ■ LONDON, May 23. I The figures of the Sinn Fein arrest* were exaggerated. In a round-up tol day between three and four hundre* were taken into custody. ■ Major-General Solly Flood has beeifl appointed in command of the entirtfl Ulster constabulary. I CAREFULLY ARRANGED COUP. I A COMPLETE .SURPRISE. I GRAVE VJEW OF SITUATION, I By Cable-Press Association-Copyright.l (Received H a.m.) LONDON, May 23. * The Collins-De Valera pact, coupled \vith the Northern Government’s energetic action against the campaign of murder has resulted in a crisis, of yhick the consequences defy analysis Arrests of Sina Feiners continue, But a number of wanted men are now fleeing to the Free s(tatc. The Ulster constabulary laid its plans so carefully that not a hint of the coup reached those wanted. A big encircling movement commenced throughout six countries at four in the morning. Houses were rapidly and efficiently visited, and practically every Sinn Fein officer on the list was arrested.

Cabinet members take the gravest view of the new political situation in Ireland. Mr Lloyd George, Mr Chamberlain, Lord Birkenhead, Messrs Winston Churchill, Worthington, Evans and Greenwood held a hurriedly arranged conference, frequently calling in Macßeady and other administrators during the proceedings, the character of which, though obviously most important, did not transpire. COLLINS-DE VALERA PACT. WHOLE POSITION CHANGED.

By Cable-Press Association-Copyright LONDON, May 23.

Sir James Craig, speaking in the Northern Parliament, said that the whole Irish situation was changed by the Collins-De Valera pact. Ulster wa» now prepared to. meet what had been arranged behind the scenes. The iitt* mediate result of the pact was that Ulster would not have any Boundary Commission under any circumstance* whatever. “What we have we will hold, and will hold despite all combinations and oppositions.” As for tfc® future Ulster would xequii#j the military if there was invasion. Most satisfactory arrangements had been completed with the British Government, and they had only to ask for more regiments and would get them. “Although I am propared to treat with the Southern representatives,” said Sir James, */I am not prepared to treat with composite government whereof one half are practically Republican, while over one-half is represented by men whose view of the treaty is a step towards a republic.”