Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-11
DUBLIN ENJOYS
SMILING AFTER
FIRST SESSION
Opening Conference at Lloyd
Georges Residence Lasts
Two Hours.
GREAT CROWD CHEERS

resenting Great Britain and SIM Fem
Ireland endeavoring to find basis for
settling the Irish question conferred to-
day In two sessions for total Of four
hours without the development OF
danger point and adjourned to meet
again at IL a. N. Thursday. At P. m.
the Irish office announced the peace con-
ference was proceeding smoothly"
LONDON, Oct. 1.-THE first session Of
the momentous Irish peace conference to
settle the quarrel of seven centuries be
tween Ireland and England lasted barely
two hours The Irish delegates and the
British ENJOYS left Premier Lloyd
Georges official residence at 10 Downing
street just before o'clock. They were
smiling and apparently satisfied. The
police had difficulty In clearing away
through the crowd for the Sim Feiners'
motor cars. The Irish got a big ovation.
The second session of the conference
was summonded for o'clock A brief
communique was issued, but it merely
contained a list of the delegates present
together with the time of the second
meeting.
AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN
ABSENT BECAUSE ILL.
Only five of the six British delegates
were present when the conference opened.
The absentee was Austen Cham berlain,
government leader in the House Of Com
mons. who is described as the most con-
ciliatory member Of Englands Big Six"
He is suffering a slight attack Of illness,
A few minutes before II O'clock and just
after Winston Churchill, Secretary for
the Colonies, mad entered, four magnih-
cent limousines drove up in front of 10
Downing street and two commandants of
the Irish republican army leaped to the
pavement The Irish delegates then en-
( tered the premier's residence.
The crowds gathered near Downing
street were far larger than those present
when Eamonn De Valera conferred with
the Premier I'm the summer. The police
kept the sightseers massed In Whitehall,
and Downing street could be entered only
through a small side gate. The main
entrance was INSTRUCTED with barbados
which had been erected to prevent inva
sion by mobs Of unemployed. Only offl-
Gals and journalists were allowed to pass
into Downing street.
As the conference got under way II
was learned from source close 20 Sir
Hamar Green wood, chief secretary for
Ireland, that differences are anticipated
early In the meeting.
DE VALERA HURLS
CAUSE OF PEACE.
! The government. 1t was said, would
not agree to a supreme parliament for
Ireland In which Ulster would lore equal
standing with South Ireland, such rs
was granted by the home rule (rartition)
| act Furthermore IL was reported British
officaldom considers the outlook
darkened by the manifesto issued In
| Dublin by Eamonn De Valera. DeNalera
| had declared peace could only he secured
If Irelands freedom were guaranteed
Long after the parley had started the
crowds stIh were milling In whitehall.
Most Of the persons assembled were Irish
! sympath!Zers., They sang Wrap the
Green Flag round Me-" and The Boys
fof Wexford" and other typically Irish
songs, meanwhile waving Green flags.
Michael Collins showed all the agility
OF Douglas Fairbanks. In lodging news
paper photographers. He leaped from
the door Of his motorcar and sprang with
remarkable rapidity TO the doors Of NO.
| 10 Downing street, leaving the camera
The crowds cheered continuously.
Collins easily was the public favorlte.
! Both civil and military branches OF the
British and the Sim Fein governments
are represented.
The British delegation consists Of Pre-
mer Lloyd George, chairman: Sir Lam
ing Worthington Evans. secretary for
war Lord Birkenhead, the lord chan
cellor Sir Hamar Greenwood. chief sec
rotary for Ireland: Austen Chamberlain.
government leader in the House of Com
mons; winston Spencer Churchill, sec
rotary OF state for the colonies.
Sir Gordon Hewett. attorney general,
will act as legal consultant to the dele
CATION upon constitutional questions
The personnel OF the Sim Fein delega
ton was: Arthur Griffith, vice presi-
dent Of the Irish republic" and founder
Of the Sim Fein organization, chairman;
Michael Collins, commander In chief Of
the Irish Republican Army; Eamonn
Duggan, George Gavan Duffy, Robert c.
Barton.
Erskine Childers, who accompanied the
Sim Fein ENJOYS from Dublin, is acting
as secretary to the delegation.
| The attitude of the press was summed
up by the Daily Chronicle, the personal
organ of Premier Lloyd George, which
said:
The public well may be advised to
blend prudent caution with optimism re-
garding the outcome OF the parley"
NEW YORK. Oct. Hilary Boland.
special envoy in the United States of Sim
Fem, announced that a drive" will be
opened in this country on Nov. Is to sell
$50 900 900 bonds Of the Irish Republic"
Mr.. Boland said the bond project will go
forward, irrespective OF the Developments
in the Irish peace conference at London
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