IRISH NEGOTIATIONS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6390, 5 December 1921, Page 2

IRISH NEGOTIATIONS

LLUYO-GEQRGE’S NEW OFFER CONSIDERED BY SIXX FEIN. REPLY DESPATCHED TO LOXDOX. (Ao;;t:'.s;iiii\ and i\ C;v ■? , ..Received 8 a.m.") LOXDOX, December 3.- - Tho Irish Republican leader, Air E. do Valera, ami members of the Sinn Fein Cabinet awaited tho arrival ait Dublin of Mr Michael Collins and the other Irish delegates from London, who handed over XI r Lloyd George's new oiler. There was a protracted conference lasting seven hours, alter which the delegates immediately re-embarke,l with the Sinn Fein reply, which ; s expected in London to-doy. In view of Sir James Craig's (Premier of Northern Ireland) declaration that he must he alerjmauled with the reply by Tuesday at latest, or Ulster would not participate in the negotiations, the delegates’ determination to deliver the .document tto Mr Lloyd George at the earliest possible moment ;» regarded as most significant. ' BRITISH EFFORT AT ,SOLUTION. J RECOGNISED BY SINN FEIN.

| LONDON, December 3. I Uis umlersuMd linn t lie Sinn Fein ! acknowledges t-lial. the fina.ncial posit ion n, tin* new British terms is of pi’inni importance. and that the whole scheme i s a. proof of an ciirmsl and honest endeavour by the British Cabinet to irame acceptable proposals. The prospects on ja setlement do not. however, _ ipipear • bright, and if t-he terms are rejected ■ then t.here is a probability that a goneral elect ion will lit' held in February, tint if the Sinn Fein accepts and Ulster rejects the proposals the Government, according to its present intentions, will pass the scheme into Taw. relying on the I Nortli and Pont li of Ireland reaching an accommodation of their d defences. i j CM ALLENCMC TO UNIONISTS. ! TO DECLARE ON POLICY. (Ilt'ci.-i T, 'xl S a.tji.) LONDON, December ti. -Mr Ramsay .MacDonald, speaking in ; .London, said that Bolshevism meant | that a section of the .community believing itself in the right declines to snb- ! mil to the majority. Me challenge.! the 'Coalition Unionists to declare plainly j whether they would support an Irish ! policy formulated by Cabinet and sup-, j ported by Parliament and a majority of I the people or support Ulster if she ro- ! pit dialed the policy, TYRONE COURTHOUSE SEI ZED, (Received 0,30 a.m.) LONDON. December :t. In censei'|tienee ol the Tyrone's County Council’s deeisfon to igmuv the Lot al (Government Boards ol hotli Britain and Ulster, the Ulster authorities took possession of the court house, which was pkue.,l under guard. The dllieials of the Bounty departments :wero ordered to leave their work.