New-York tribune., 1920-08-03
Bill for Trial Without
Jury Assured, Putting
Ireland i'm the Status of
an Occupied Province
No Cabinet Crisis:
LloydGeorge Wins
Sim Feiners Raid Light
houses; Mannix Prob
lem Is Still Unsolved
By Arthur S. Draper
From TIC Tribune's Europeon Bureou

LONDON, aug. ID uSC SIX years
ago this bank holiday, the British
Cabinet met to decide the question
of war or neutrality. Premier Lloyd
George and his ministers have been
sitting to-day to decide the policy to
pursue with regard to Ireland.
There is present an atmosphere of
war, but this time it is created by do
nestle issues, if the Irish situation,
= the chief of Britain's great problems,
can be classed as a domestic ques-
ticn. The bill which they are re-
ported to have framed virtually puts
Ireland in the position of an occu-
pied province.
The Premier came in from the
country and his leading ministers
hurried TO Downing Street to con-
slider the final draft of a bill in
tended to restore order, if not peace,
in Ireland While 90 per cent of the
population was enjoying the mid
summer holiday. the Downing Street
Irish Office was occupied in framing
laws to handle several million recall
citrant Irishmen. All of this was
calculated to impress the uninitiated
with the profound seriousness of the
situation.
Cabinet Crisis Repor. Denied
The coalition government. composed
Of Conservatives, Liberals. Laborites
and others of varying shades Of politi-
cal opinion, is not regarded as the
ft.est body 10 arrive at a definite
policy in such politically complicated
problem as that Of Ireland, and conse-
qucntlv there rs little surprise over
rumorc ot dssensions, though little
STOCK is put in reports of a Cabinet
crisis leading TO the unseating of Pre-
mier Lloyd George himself Although
dissatisfaction with Andrew Bonar
Law. government leader in the House
Of Commons, has reached an acute
stage among the group Of Unionists,
there is iittle poss bility that he will
be succeeded by Sir Edward Carson at
this sage.
As has been Indicated many times in
these dispatches, the opposition to the
government IS constantly growing, but
It's opponents cannot unite on single
issue. much less upon a successor to
Lloyd George. Even the Liberal and
Labor members cannot form an ali-
ance. chiefly because of political
= L..
ernment. if there is any, lies in in
ternal dissension, not in attacks from
the outside.
Majority Backs Premier
To-dav's parliamentary skirmishcs
are Indicative of attacks which viii be
made when the Irish coercion bill
comes up for debate at the end of the
aeek. But when a division is taken
Lloyd George is assured Of substan-
tlal majority. Immediately when Par
lament rises the Premier intends to
90 to Switzerland for a long holiday
and thus escape criticism which IS
bound to follow the adoption o. the
coercion bill
Meanwhile, the Sim Feners are con-
tmuing their campaign with total DIS
regard of developments at Westmln-
s'er. Their propaganda bureau, Which
Is cleverer than anything ever organized
by the Germans, because they know
how to appeal to sentiment and how to
play the part of the under dog, fur
nishes long list of killings by police
men and soldiers since Sir Hamar
Greenwood attempted to reach
"peaceable solution
As soon as the Sinn Feiners learned
that no homebound steamships would
call al Queenstown raids were made on
tho Mizzenhead and other lighthouse
stations
Mannix Problem Unsolved
Nothing proves the thoroughness OF
the Sim Feiners' organizatlon pettef
than the promptitude with which they
adopt obstructive methods as soon as
they learn the governments plans. AL
though the government will try TO pre-
Vent Archbishop Mannix, Of Melbourne
Australia, from entering Ireland, an
embarrassing situation is bound TO
arise if he insists on going.
The Irish Trade Union Congress
opened to-day at Cork, the Lord Mayor
giving Il civil welcome at the CITY Haii'
IN which he expressed the bellet there
soon would be a real republic IN Ire
land.
LONDON. Aug.2. BY The Associated
Press. The Cabinet at to-day's scs-
s,"n is reported 10 have virtually com
pleted the new Irish bill. providing TOR
TRIAL without jury in ireland and giving
the military and police wider powers
Tor apprehending suspected persons.
The inability of the government au-
thorities to arrest criminals and 90,
tain jures in south and west Ireland
caused the break down of the Crown
courts and was forcing the government
officials stated. to resort to the jury
less court system. -,
The Grown will appoint The high
Justice and other court officials, VINO
Will sit only in Dublin to obvlate the
possibility Of attack if court sessions
were to be held in remote iocal't,es
Il 10 expected the bill Will be as
cussed Thursday and passed friday.
Moderate opinion in ireland, says
p<blin dispatch to The Lonoon
Times" is seriously questioning the
wisdom of the government declslon 70
exclude Archbishop Mannix, Of Aus
1ralia, from Ireland. Many arguments
are urged against it. In the first place
Is pointed out that the Sinn rem
need M ancouva vaOement from ANYBODY