New-York tribune., 1921-04-04
Talk of Peace
Is Universal in
Irish Capital
Sim Fein Reported Ready
for Compromise; Lloyds
Refuses Bets That War
fare Will End by August
ENGLAND Fears Election
r,ll Dominion Seen as Solu-
ton. With Abandonment
of Dual Parliament Plan

n1-RIlN. April (By The Associated
prsssl The opinion was expressed
!. dav bv competent observers that the
IN situation had undergone con-
,:aorshlc change for the better since
{. patrick's Day. A motnh ago Dublin
s.r;aed the peace prophets, but to-day
srod;ctions that there VIII DC set
,,.nert Of the controversy in the near
s,'.',rn are universal. Llovds declined
:" sccept bets offered during the week
.Sst neace viii be brought about before
August ,.,. -, =.
..oyed There has been no cessation
pswarfare in any part of the disturbed
J;stricts. and the trouble is spreading
10 Ulster.
.;,n;s.ic view Of the situation are the
;rsnk admission Of Premier Lloyd
George of the governments failure to
snlve the Irish problem. the appoint
mont Of Catholic Niceroy, Eamon de
Walsra's latest pronouncements, which
are interpreted as showing the wiling
moss of the Sim Fem for what is
dsemed reasonable compromise: Eng
lands internal troubles, which are de-
rlared to be intensified by the coal
strike: the repudiation of the partition
act by southern Ireland. the admitted
diffcultv of establishing the Ulster
Parliament. the significance attached
in Ireland to the report of the Ameri-
can Committee of One Hundred. Presi-
don't Harding's reported Endorsement of
the American Relief Committees cam
naign and a rumor that United States
Senator Kenyon is coming to Ireland
as President Harding's representative
TO make an Investigation.
Fears Sim Fein Sweep
Government circles do not conceal
their anxiety over the prospect that
the Sim Fem viii sweep southern Ire
land and win an overwhelming major
ity of the seats in the southern Par
lament. With the Nationalists and
Sim Feiners cooperating in the north
the task Of establishing the Ulster
Parliament is recognized as fraught
with political hazards. Many persons
continue to express the belief that the
government Will abandon its attempt
to establish the Parliament and en-
deavor to arrange a truce before the
date Of the elections.
Sit is confidently asserted here that
he Sim Fein would be willing to ne
go,iate peace on the basis of status
Of full dominion. \ rumor that the
Dali Eireann has appointed commit
tee to negotiate with former enemy
countries is denied.
However, these views on peace ap-
parently are not held by the Ipish
Labor party, which tomorrow will
issue long manifesto, in which the
declaration Will be made that the labor
readers assume that the state of war"
will continue for 4 long time The
manifesto viii suggest war program
a0r the irish community.
6 One in Six Workers Idle
Pointing out that 100000, or one in
each six workers, are unemployed. the
Labor party adopts the Dali Eireann's
democratic program" and proposes in
addition moratorium suspcnding all
land rents and purchase annuties. Ten
per cent of this money should be col
lected by the national authorities and
applied to the mitigation of the hard
ships OF the people, says the manifesto
Inc party proposes campaign of
manufacturers. traders and consumers
for the protection of Irish manufac-
lures, and declares that the Labor
party frankly avows protection as es-
sential to the foundation of an Irish
industrial revival, but that the protec-
ton must be for the interest of the
workers
I've must free ourselves from the
tolls Of competition of the individual
lstlc system, or be compelled to suffer
the consequences attaching thereto,
which inevitably fall with the greatest
force upon the working classes the
manifesto will say.
Two in Lorry Shot
Christopher Reynolds, an insurance
agent, and another prisoner in the
same lorry with Bernard Nolan, of