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New Zealand Tablet, 14 August 1919, Page 31

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;, ■ - -■» -■» ■ i GENERAL. , Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P., speaking recently in London, said:—"There is no longer one Irish faction fighting against another. The Irish are a unit and the old Constitutionalists who had stood by me and the party to which I belong for 50 years are now standing on the same platform as the most revolutionary." Judge Cohalan, of the Supreme Court, New York, says a Sunday Independent correspondent, has made a complete statement of Ireland's case and claim to selfdetermination. He believes that England .fears that a free Ireland would rival her in all the markets of the world. By the Act of Union Ireland was overaxed on a yearly average of £300.000,000. Bismarck took £200,000.000 as indemnity from France; Great Britain has exceeded this sum ■by half. The writer ponds out that Ireland, by the votes of the people has declared itself for complete independence and separation. l.o„f "V Joseph Devlin. MP - addressing the English will o 9 f 1 C ° m ™>**S™** Sinn Fein was'the dominant will of the Irish people, it has-a perfect right to represent Ireland. He also declared, during the Budget TreWl ,f 7? Ule enbire representation of r. eland attended at Westminster, their voices were not listened to when- they raised the questions of the financial and political rights of their country. The obvLfs e V Mn Devlin ° U * ht to *£l* fro w . hIS ° WI "Stents and withdraw iiom Westminster. ——— ■ v IRELAND'S POPULATION: TRAGIC FIGURES Ihe London Daily Xetvs says:—One of the greatest; tragedies published in modem times was ZZ as a Parliamentary Paper for the modest sum of 2d It is m the shape of a report from the Registrar-General of Skt'n; dreSSed to HS ExcellenV John Denton and ketone, Vxscount French, Lord Lieutenant-General and Governor-General of Ireland," and it says-b-r 81 "EX It I>eri ° d frm Ma >' l > 1851 > to DecerniM 41, 1918, the number of natives of Ireland who ermrated was 4,319,693 (2,244,339 males and 2,075,354 femaes), equivalent to 82.8 per cent, of the average population of the country." '" s There was a redeeming feature in 1918, thanks, of course to -Dora," The emigrants from Ireland last year numbered only 983. MR, LLOYD GEORGE AND THE AMERICAN COMMISSIONERS. ♦i S ,e x C T k 7 i ffWr says the news from Paris to the effect that Mr. Lloyd George has withdrawn his Sr i i receive the American Commissioners, Messrs VV.a.sh, Dunne, and Ryan, on their return to Paris will occasion no surprise in Ireland, where Georgian promises are appraised at their proper worth. In any case, circumstances were too strong for him The influences that destroyed Home Rule, hushed up the Curragh revolt condoned the Orange preparations for rebellion, and the, landing of arms at lime—all the old malevolent and reactionary influences w«™ at ™™-ir to prevent an interview. As, however, the Commissioners have asserted they neither sought nor desired an interview with Mr. George, they will not beeper--turbed at ; the new turn of events. Besides, the only use of an interview to the Premier would be to delay or side-track important matters, and they would not be prepared to give him any help- in that direction.