IRISH AFFAIRS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 9 December 1925, Page 5

IRISH AFFAIRS.

THE BOUNDARY PROBLEM. A HEATED DISCUSSION. Press Association-Electric Telegraph—Copyrign. LONDON, Tuesday. The debate on. the Irish agreement in the Dail Eireann was adjourned after a two hours’ discussion. l’ersident Cosgrave, in moving tlio second reading, said: “When Professor Mac Neill resigned, the Irish executive was faced with perhaps the most serious situation with which it had to deal. An award of the Boundary Commission was then imminent, and would have sown tlio seeds of distrust, hate and disorder. They were faced with tw.o alternatives, namely, carrying out the award or- resorting to arbitration or force. Either alternative pointed straight to disaster and chaos. The agreement will mean the turning point in Irish history. It has removed the main out standing source of dispute between Britain and the Free State. The Executive strongly recommends the Deputies to accept it in the interests of , prosperity and peace.” \ Professor Magennis strongly opposed the agreement, declaring that Ulster had got all its own wnv and was in a fair way to become a Dominion. It was culpable and wilful ignorance for the executive to allow Professor Mac Neill to proceed until there -was no way out. A meeting of the Nationalist members of Parliament and the leaders of Tyronne and Fermanagh-,was held at Omagh this evening. It was declared that the Nationalists in the border countries had been callously betrayed. They were neither morally nor legally bound by the, new agreement, as tlio Free State representatives had not been authorised to alter the treaty. The Government defeated a motion for the adjournment of the, debate bv 55 votes to 26, thus practically ensuring the ratification of the Irish agreement. —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. IRISH BILL CARRIED. (Received Wednesday, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, Tuesday. The House of Commons carried the third reading of the Irish Bill witliou. division, —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn. AGREEMENT OPPOSED. (Received Wednesday, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, Tuesday. A meeting of the Dublin Republican Labour and ' Farmers’ Parties of the Dail Eireann, including De Valera and Mary MacSwinney, unanimously resolved, “That this meeting of . representatives of the Irish people opposes the agreement to partition of the coun try.” A committee was appointed to dev.se the most effective means to defeat the - proposals. - ; •* All members of the Dail Eireann were invited to the meeting. A few Ministerialists attended, including the I) e^uty’Speaker (Mr. Patrick O’Malley).—Aus. and N.Z. Cable. Assn.