Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-06-27
BR|TA|N'S PLEA FOR
PEACE IN IRELAND.
MAY GET RESUL IS
ERIN FACTIONS STUDY OFFER
MADE BY LLOYD GEORGE IN
HOPE OF TERMINATING TROu
RLEs--ULSTER LEADER CALLS
CABINET CONFERENCE.

Dublin June 27.-After a day of
conferences with colleagues IN con
nection with Premier Lloyd George I.
letter, It was considered improbable
that canon de Valera would make
any statement today regarding the
invitation
It was said last evening that Mr.
de Valera s conferences with his eel
leagues had not been completed and
that possibly meeting OF the Dial
Eireann members might lie consider
ed essential to the situation
Mr. de Valera today attended mass
and took breakfast at Black Rock col
lege. where at one time he used to
teach
In Sim Fem circles il is consider
ed probable that IL Mr. de Valera goes
10 London to confer with LLOYD
George and Craig Of Ulster one col
league he is sure to take along viii
he JohA Joseph MCkeown, member OF
parliament representing Longford
who recently was tried by court mar.
tial on a charge of numbering District
Inspector McGrath
Other political leaders saw in tho |
letter an abandonment by the premier |,
Of his repeated bar against certain /
Sim Feinars. as Pros ne Valera. they /
said would ne free to choose any
colleagues he plesses. even men IN |
der sentence by court martial
Cardinal Logue primate ~ Ireland.
said he could not see much use IF a
conference between Sir limos Craig
and President Ne Valera but as the /
British government also was involved
there might he some hone although
il would be desirable for the govern.
ment to release from prison modor
ates like Arthur Griffith. founder Of
the Sim Fem
Rdicuted In Chicago.
Chicago. June 27-Premier IIoyd
George invitation to canon dc Va
lera and James Craig premier of III.
ster. to attend peace parlev In Lon
don was ridlculed Yesterday at the
forty sixth annual convention Of the
United Irish Societies Of Chicago In !
Prudential hall Halsted street and
Nurth avenue
The willy Weishman." said Attor.
lev Hugh ONenl has invited Presj
tent de Valera In the same terms he
has invited Craig-Craig as the head
4 SIX counties n nine in Ulster. and
President d. Valera as the leader of
he south Of Ireland
Mfr he Valera is the president ~
he Irish Republic. which embraces {
IN Ireland An acceptance Of the fa
'Itatlcn tinds him to it, terms II
you'd amount TO qualification of
he fact that he is president of the
IRISH Republic
one resolution declared implicit
confidence that the Irish Republican
rmy will uphold the traditions upop
which the Irish Republic has been es
abiished and that it will consider no
'eace that is not based upon abso-
ate separation from the British EN-
ire
May Call Prime Ministers.
Lohaoh' June 21-ln the event of
anon de Valera accepting Llovd
teorges invitation to visit London
Or peace "onferenCe II il altogeth.
T probable that the dominion prime
liiilsterS, now in London, will be in
lted by the British prime minister
appear in the negotiations.
II Pres. De Valera accepts the in
tatlon the coming week in London
ny well be one of the most momen
nus IN a century of British history
TN the mtnets and their empIoynrs,
tiied to confer today with tho hone
the settlement of the Irish ouaq
)h presented and with the Anplo-
panese and all that il inyIoyes nm
VI consideration No to Downinr
rect will be big with possihilltias
the future Of the world
VIII BE Seriously Considered
Belfast, June n in mass,pe ro
lVed here from Paris where no &c
ting for Irish Republican interests
an OCealiaigh, members of the
lsh Republican parliament saws.
Lio}d Georges invitation ia ox
ofe the possibilities of settlement
Independence Is not excluded viii
opabtedly receive the earnest ron.
efation Of President De Valera ana
irish cabinet"