ULSTER BOUNDARY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19009, 9 May 1924, Page 5

ULSTER BOUNDARY

BRITISH GOVERNMENT’S DILEMMA AN ULSTER REPRESENTATIVE ESSENTIAL Weccivcd May 8. 7.20 p.m. LONDON. May 8. The Daily Telegraph’s Parliamentary correspondent says the Government has taken legal opinion as to whether it is possible under the Irish treaty for only two commissioners to act on the Boundary Commission. The decision communicated to Cabinet is that unless an Ulster representative is appointed the commission cannot sit. The Cabinet yesterday considered the suggestion that the Governor-General of Northern Ireland should be asked to appoint a representative, and also the ajiettton of a neutral chairman. The Government does not desire to move hastily, but the Free State is pressing for action. The Daily Express understands that the Cabinet will make further efforts to secure a settlement by agreement. SIR JAMES CRAIG’S VIEWS LONDON, May 7. • Sir Janies Craig, speaking in the Ulster Parliament, said: “If the frontier is attacked we arc entitled to the support of the British army and navy Any Government at Westminster refusing it will not last a day. If the boundary affair is allowed to peter out it would be better for Ireland and the Empire.”