IRELAND‘S PEACE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 12 January 1922, Page 5

IRELAND‘S PEACE.

PRESERVATION OF REPUBLIC. Per Press Association —Copyright. London, January 10. At the sitting of the Dail Eireann Mr De Vale r a to the last maintained that Mr Griffith was bound to preserve the Republic. Mr Griffith replied that he would keep the Republic intact until the people decided for or against the Treaty. Mr De Valera rose and read a declaration of the chairman of the London delegation as President of the Republic, declaring that he would not participate in the voting. As Mr De Valera’s following was leaving niosily, Mr Collins sprang up indignantly and shouted: “We now call on the Irish people to rally to us. We shall stand by the nation in the hour of trial.” The Countess Markievicz, who was retiring, shouted: “Slaves, cowards”

MR GRIFFITH'S POLICY. “HIS BEST FOR THE IRISH.” London, January 10. When the Dail Ei r eann re-assem-bled in the afternoon, all the Republican members rose in their seats. Mr De Valera asked Mr Griffith for a declaration of his policy. The speaker promised not to obstruct the new President while he upheld the authority of the Dish Republic. Mr Griffith replied that his policy was to do the best he could for the Irish people. Mr Childers then rose. . Mr Griffith angrily declined to take any notice of Mr Childers. Striking his fist on the table, he added: “I won’t r eply to any damned Englishman; this is the Dail Eireann Mr Childers, white with passion, said: “You have no business to question my nationality. That is a matter for my constituetents. I am not a true Englishman.” The Speakes ruled the matter out of order. SOVREIGNTY OR REPUBLIC? London, January 10. After the Childers affair was disposed of, Mr Mac Neil!, on leaving the chair, proposed a motion:— “That Ireland was a sovereign nation.” He said that he did not want it to be possible for anyone to say in the future that the Irish people had not insisted on their rights. Mr De Valera moved an amendment to the effect that the Dail Eireann reaffirms, in the name of the Irish people, the Declaration of Independence made on January 21, 1919. Mr Maeneill accepted the amendment, which became a substantive motion. Mr Griffith however indicated that he would treat the motion contentiously, so Mr McNeill withdrew it. Finally the Dail Eireann adjourned till February 14, Mr Mulcahy promising that the army would be kept intact and be the army of the Republic. TERRORISM GOES ON. BOMBING AND MURDERING. While a tram was proceeding down Ardoyne Hill in Belfast with eightysix passengers, ten men approached the car and one excitedly fired a revolver; but the d r iver accellerated the speed just in time to miss a bomb which fell and exploded behind the car. No casualties resulted. A dastardly outrage is reported from the Crumlin Road district. A workman named Anderson Was leaving home, and his wife came to the dooi - to say good-bye, when both were shot dead. MUCH SHOOTING REPORTED. LONDON, January 10. A bomb exploded in Cupar Street. Belfast, and a girl was wounded. There has been much shooting, the police firing on tte ri ters, who dispersed. Several people were wounded

SOUTHERN PARLIAMENT SUMONED. Mr Griffith’s Cabinet has decided to summon the Southern Irish Parliament for Saturday fo r the establishment of a provisional government Dublin Castle announces the disbandment of the auxiliary police and the Black and Tans lyOPINION AND ADVICE. The Irish Tinies says the electors will accept a free state constitution by an overwhelming majority, and will relegate to private life most of the persons who defied thei r wishes in the Dail Eireann. The Irish Independent says that instead of dissapating their energies in a political conflict, Irishmen of all parties ought to concentrate upon the formulation of a constitution ensuring for the free state the fullest benefit derivable f r om the treaty.