New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
Lloyd George to Give Ire.
land One More Chance
to Demonstrate Its Abil.
ity to Govern Itself
Army of 10000
Ready to Invade
Final Returns Show Ulster
Parliament Has 80
Unionists, l3 Sinn Fein
From The Tribune's European Bureau
CopyriRht, 1921, New York Tribune Tn.

LONDON, May 28.-The govern
ment's plans to foil the Sim Feiners
in their efforts to block the applica-
tion of the Home Rule act to all of
Ireland are rapidly taking shape.
Lloyd George will give the rebels one
more chance to handle Irish problems
IN an orderly way, and if this fails,
his answer to their defiance will be
martial law. The $4,000 additional
troops that are being poured into the
island are a part of the governments s
program of force. Sim Fein must ac-
cept Home Rule or have it forced on
them, with military governors and SOL
diers in place of parliaments.
The conclusion of the Irish elections
has necessitated the formulation Of a
program of action. The final results
in Ulster, announced to-day, give the
Unionists 80 seats in the northern
parliament against 13 held by Sim
Fein and Nationalist abstentionists.
For the whole of Ireland the figures
are 43 Unionists and 1877 abstention-
lists. The northern parliament, where
the Orangemen have majority enough
to make it an effective body, will meet
IN Belfast, June z, despite the fact
that it will be hampered in some de-
tails of the assumption of local gov
eminent by the destruction of valuable
records in the Dublin Custom House
fire this week
Sim Fein Plans Defiance.
But the southern Parliament, which
isn't scheduled to meet until three
weeks later, isn't expected to meet on
scheduled time. The Sim Fein, who
have a great majority plan merely to
absent themselves and prevent the body
from functioning. Instead the Sim
Fein members of the southern body
are expected to meet next week in an
informal way, call in the republican
members of the northern Parliament,
constitute themselves into a reorgan-
lied Dali Eireann (Sinn Fein Parlia-
ment) and proceed as before, in de-
fiance of the British government.
TO meet this program of obstruction
tactics Lloyd George has decided to try
first the administration of southern
Ireland through committee, members
of which would be nominated by the
Irish Privy Council. 1t is feared now
that enough men to accept the nomina-
tlons cannot be found. But if this al
ternative to government by a southern
Parliament fails, Lloyd George will
answer with troops. All the island ex-
cept Ulster would be included under
martial rule.
Military Policy Gains Support
Military leaders in ireland assert
that clear-cut policy of pacifcation
by the military has not been tried in
ireland because the Irish Constabularv
and the soldiers on duty there are con-
trolled by different heads. They urge
that the military leaders be given COM
plete control over the police as we'll as
the soldiers. This proposal is appar-
emily gaining support.
AS further evidence of the inminence
Of military rule in Ire land is a new in
ternment camp, now under construction
there. 1t is being built to house 10000
prisoners.
DUBLIN, May % (By The Associated
s).-CroWn forces invested large
area around Dublin Mansion House this
morning and cordons of the military
held several streets, at the ends Of
which barbed wire entanglements we're
placed. Exhaustive searches of the
houses in the neighborhood were imme-
dlately commenced.
The crown forces say that they cap
tured the headquarters of the Irish re-
publican army in recent raid.
Important Documents Intact
An examination to-day of the ruins
OF the Custom House, parts of which
still are smouldering, revealed the fact
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