Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-02-07
NEGOTIATIONS FOR
SETTLEMENT Of IRISH
QUESTION RUMOREO
Reported Attempt TO Bring Ulster
Leaders into Line on
Partition.
FISCAL AUTONOMY PRIZE

ny Associated Prese To Every Evening.
Dublin. FEB. 7-fnteresting r1inors
are circulating in Dublin today With
regard 70 fresh efforts the government
IS reported 10 b making % effect
settlement with southern ireland.
According to one report, the govern
rnent is trying 10 bring the Ulster lead
ers into lire with a veil formulated
scherne to persuade the South 20 &C
cept the partition provided for in the
nome rule act and work ufds- Il. This
version % the rsputed plans has Il that
the prize TO be offered for acceptance il
a grant Of full fiscal autonomy 70 both
sections CT ireland This would IL
coupled, so far ~ the south - con-
cernec. with an offer 20 release the
political prisoners and grant amnesty
70 Irish Republicans generally. inclua-
ing mornberr ri the Irish Republican
army. and ever men ~on the run
NEGOTIATIONS IN this end now are pro
ceedinE, IL il said. between Mr.. Lloyd
George, the Prime Minister, and Sir
Eduarc CarTon, Ulster leader in the
British Parliament
Whether the Sim Fein would accept
the partition act oven with a grant of
the coxatroi CT the finances. amnesty
and other concessions. Il q question on
which the opinion OF students Of the
situation is widely divergent. Repre-
sentatircs OF The Slim Fein when ap-
preached as to this, have rafused u treat
the reported scheme seriously.
2-Negotia tons for
Belfast. Feb. The Lenteu pastoral
letters read yesterday by al the Ulster
Catholic Bishops were devoted 70 The
serious situation existing In Ireland.
Cardinal Logue, priuIate Of all Ireland
declared that he never had written un-
der feelings OF deeper anxiety or with
a more vivid sense Of his responsibility
in the dark prospects for the couu-ry's
future.
The cry OK suffering ireland" said
the Cardinal, despite the efforts 20
smother IL by propaganda. viii -e-echo
through centuries. marking out sorry
place in history for the present rulers.
There has been no word OF concilauon
but repression pure and simple. such As
mas been unknown in Ireland since the
days Of Cromwell. and such as outstrips
any example except that OF perhaps
Turkey and the Bolsheviki."
Cardinal Logue denounced IN scath-
ing terms the policy Of the Government
which, he said. had robbed il Of all
sense OF sacredness Of human life and
extinguished the instructive horror ot
blcodshed. He declared that the So
called ofncial reprisals were acts OF
wanton oppression and injustice; that
men guiltless OF any overt act against
law and order were dragged out AZ
dead Of night and shot under the eyes
Of their families. that prisoners were
shot in lorries under the plea Of at
tempting 20 escape. though they were
surrounded by armed men easily able
10 restrain them.
1T must noe be inferred, the Cardl-
nails pastoral continued. that ] over
look or condone extremist crimes. The
lying in wait ane shooting OF policemen
or soldiers is not an act Of warfare, but
is plain murder. and viii entail punish
ment for murder hers. and. II not re-
pented and atored FOR. terrible punish
rnent hereafter. No reason adduced nor
any end, however noble could Justify
H."
Belfast Feb. dublin dispatches
state that Saturday night the city ex-
perienced q sensation when loud explo-
sions and continuous volley. resemblin
the sounds Of battle on small scale.
became audible from the distant sub
urbs. 1t turned out shat three ara
bushes had occurred, one Of which r.
suited in the killing OF a four-year-old
child.