THE IRISH QUESTION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16034, 27 January 1920, Page 5

THE IRISH QUESTION.

A HOPELESS TANGLE.

THE LABOUR PAJITY AMAZED

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, Received January 27, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, January 26.

The Dublin correspondent of the Daily Express says that the British Labour Mission is amazed at the hopeless tangle prevailing in Ireland. They met Griffiths, acting-president of the Sinn Fein Republic, and several members of his so-caued Cabinet. They also interviewed southern Unionists, Nationalists, and Labourites, and learned from ail sides that the issue is uncompromisingly “all or nothing.” There jnust either he union backed up by the fullest military force, or complete Republican independence. The mission regards either solution as impossible. The Labour Party certainly will not take up the Republicanism, but is inclined to think Mr Lloyd George's scheme for a dual Parliament only a waste of time. The Mission probably wilt advocate a wide scheme of Home Rule on the lines of the Dominions’ administration, with county option, coupled with an ambitious plan for an industrial revival.