Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-11-27

tees are reported to have reached
conclusions so quickly and easily that
there is a suspicion in some. quarters
that they have been evadins issues
and intend to pass responsibility on
the assembly before which the SUP
1ects will be debated at length.
Progress has been made in the Ar
menian matter to the extent that it
now seems to be quite generally
agreed that an effort will be made to
bring about q settlement of the diff
ficulties between Armenians and
Turks by negotiation. One sugges-
ton is that the government Of the
United States be asked to use its good
Offices to bring about an agreement.
1t is stated, in order that there may be
no misconstructAon, that such an Of
fer involves no renewal of the pro-
posal for a mandate over Armenia.
The United States has entered into
the discussion Of the Mesopotamian
settlement throueh the dispatch Of a
communication from the department
of state in which is stated the Amer
lean assumption that in whatever set
Elements are considered, no monopolis-
tic privileges will be given to Great
Britain or any other nation, and that
in any event the United states cannot
recognize any settlement which de-
prives the United States of any OF its
rights to equal trade opportunities.
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It seems nov to be certain that
Austria will be admitted to the
league without opposition. The ad-
mission of Bulgaria will be opposed
by the neighboring Balkan nations.
Admission Of Finland, Albania and
other Of the newer nations will be
debated, as the conditions surround
ing these countries have not been re-
lieyed Of %obscurity.
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IN the British parliament the dis
cussion Of the Irish home rule bill in
the house Of lords has begun, and it
has been given fresh interest by the
occurrences in Dublin las. Sunday
when some fourteen officers and
members of the British armed forces
in that city were deliberately muir
dered by squads of armed men who
sought them out in their rooms this
series of murders to be followed by
more shooting at a hockey game,
where British troops killed and
wounded several persons out Of sev-
erai thousand who had gathered at
the game. AS usual, stories of these
occurrences are in conflict. There is
no denial anywhere Of the facts tina.
the members of the military forces
were sought out and killed, one by
one, or that the troops shot and
killed at the hockey game. The most
extended statement thus far pub
lished is that made by Sir Hamar
Greenwood before the house of COM
mons, in which the whole AFFAIR 10
treated as a part Of the SIM Fein pol
icy of assassination, and in which it is
stated that large quantities Of docu-
mentary evidence has been captured
identifying many. of the persons i'm
plicated in recent outraxes. The
statement also declares that the ef-
forts of the government to put an end
to The era Of Assassination and ter
rorism have been successful, that
throughout a large part Of ireland the
disorders have ceased, and that the
Dublin affair was largely an exhibi-
ton of desperation on the part Of
Sim Fem.
AZ an illustration Of the ann in
which the bitterness Of the Irish quar-
relMhas projected itself across the
ocean, we have the spectacle OF riot
ing In the streets Of New York by per-
sons gathered for services IN honor
OF the late lord mayor Of Cork. VINO
starved himself to death in Bftxton
prison. The crowd became ansered
by the display OF the British flag,
flown with others according to Gus
tom from the front OF q club build
ings and before the police could quen
thessriot the windows Of the building
hadsbeen smashed and many persons
had been injured.
The Grecian situation appears to be
resolving itself sdnto the certainty Of
thesrecallt OF former King Constantine
by fhe plsbiscite soon to be held.
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