Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-09-16
British Cabinet Invites the Irish
to Confer With 1t at
inverness.
ULSTER ARMING FOR FIGHT
League Of Nations Assembly Con
fronted With Demand involving
Monroe Doctrine-Judge Lands
Releases Building Industry Of
Chicago From Its Bonds.
BY EDWARD W. PIckARD.


Ireland declines to relinquish her
place on the front page Of the worlds
news. As was predicted, De Valera's
note to Premier Lloyd George merely
continued. the controversy, acceptance
Of the British dominion offer being
again refused and the Sim Fem argu-
ments repeated. Adherence to the
principle of government by the consent
of the governed was insisted upon,
and once more it was made clear that
by this Ireland means that she must
be treated as an entirely Independent
nation.
Lloyd George was in Inverness,
Scotland, when the note reached him,
and the British cabinet was called up
there to formulate a reply. The min
listers were In bad humor at being
forced to make the trip and the pros
pect for a conciliatory answer to the
Irish was gloomy. De Valera fore
stalled an adverse decision by the
statement that If England issued an
ultimatum war would result. OF
probably more effect was a message
to the premier from the parliamentary
committee of the Trades Union con-
gress and the national executive board
of the Labor party, urging the govern
ment to invite representatives of the
Irish people to meet them face to face
In a conference, and declaring that sit
would be a disaster If the deep and
spontaneous feeling for peace now
pervading the two peoples was allowed
to evaporate while their representa-
tives engaged in a controversy by ex-
change of notes."
Several hours of debate put the
cabinet members In a more cheerful
frame of mind, and q new note was
dispatched that invited De Valera to
send delegates to a conference with
the cabinet at Inverness o. September
20 for a renewed consideration of the
peace proposals. This sounded fine,
but there was a fly in the ointment.
The condition was imposed that 1t
must be understood that Ireland was
to remain in the empire. No doubt
De Valera will send delegates to Scot
land, but whether the discussion will
be fruitful so long as they are asked
to accept this compulsory stipulation
Is questionable.
In q speech at Armagh Commandment
O'Duffey of the Irish republican army
declared that south Ireland would
compel Ulster to unite with 1t by use
Of the boycott, and that if that failed,
lead would be used. Belfast Union
SITS have accepted this as a direct
hallenge and are arming themselves
or the conflict. Steps r also being
ken to revive the Ulster volunteer
rces. The Ulster press is exulting
er the prospect Of a renewal of
s~tilities between the British and
IN Fem.
Sir Horace Plunkett, one Of the
sest of Irishmen, ices nothing but
80 incompatible contentions-no
rogress whatsoever towards recon
citation. He wants a Vote Of the
whole irish people on the matter.
The assembly of the League Of Ma
tons, now holding its second meeting
in Geneva, has been put up against a
difficult proposition by the delegates
from Bolivia. They demanded that the
old dispute over the provinces of
Tacna and africa, now under Chilean
administration, be placed on the
agenda of the assembly. and that the
treaty Of 1904 between Bolivia and
Chile be taken under consideration for
possible revision. The Chilean dele
CATION. led by Augustln Edwards,
argued passionately against the pro-
posal, urging that the league is not