Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1921-11-26
.PARLEYS
THREATENED BY
LATEST ACTION
Only Condition Under Which
Ulster Will Accept Offer
Is Rejected by Dublin
CRAIG LEAVES LONDON
Will Report Details of Break
In Negotiations to North
Island Cabinet Tuesday

LONDON, Nov. 25.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press)-What is feared to be
the last scene in the effort to bring
peace to Ireland was enacted today
when Prime Minister Lloyd George
and Sir James Craig met in the for
mer's official residence in Downing
street, where the imperial premier
told the head of the northern govern
ment that Sim Fein Ireland had not
consented TO own allegiance to the
king, requisite to listers agreement
to enter an all-lreland parliament
The Sim Fein delegates are consult
ing with members of the cabinet in
Dublin on the crisis thus brought
about, while Sir James packed his bag
and returned to Belfast. where he will
report to his parliament next Tues,
day and possibly disclose the cause of
virtual breakdown of the Irish nego-
tiations. The official correspondence
that has passed between the various
delegations also may be published at
the same time in London.
Will Continue Efforts
Weekend efforts, meanwhile, will
be made by peace makers in an at
tempt to persuade the Sim Fein to
modify its attitude on the question of
allegiance to the king. The Dali Fir
eann members have taken the oath of
allegiance to the Irish republic, and
thus far they have refused to substi-
tute for it recognition, within ireland,
of King George. The furthest conces-
sions from the Sim Fein has been
their willingness to recognize the king
as the formal president of the commun
itv of free nations which Ireland
might choose voluntarily to join, but
even this was not definitely promised
Lord Chancellor Birkenhead and At
torney General Hewart, law officers
of the crown. have ransacked the con-
stitutions OF all the British dominions
to find any precedent for the only
kind of relationship with the British
crown that Sim Fein will consider,
but nothing can be found and the
Evening News, the first London news
paper to indicate the real cause of the
crisis, suggests that relations of Ba-
varia with Prussia in the German EN-
pire might furnish such a precedent.
Put Lloyd George, it is understood.
would not admit of any arrangement
which would leave Ireland's ale
glance to the crown in any doubt. and
the government wC~ Id support Ulster
III refusing any dSSOcldtlOn WHICH
would weaken it's British citizenship
Issue Up to Sim Fein
The only prospect for peace now is
said to rest on Sim Fein's conceding
allegiance to the crown, and the influ-
ence of the advocates of moderation
has been invoked in a final effort to-
change its position. The question Is
being put as TO whether the point in
volved is worth renewed warfare, for
a breakdown of the negotiations on
that issue. it Is believed, would be fol-
lowed either before or after the gen.
eral election by the handing over of
Ireland to military rule and the dis
placement of the civilian officials in
Dublin Castle to whose influence is
attributed the previous failure of mill
tary measures.
All along the Sim Fein delegates
have held the belief that no matter
what the result of the negotiations
might be. the British public would op-
wvrrsr.