Evening star., 1922-04-02

would be no discrimination in future against
Catholic employees in Ulster, to which Sir James
have not been re-employed because of the slump
In industry. and for no other reason. SIR
ing his promise as to a settlement Of the
boundary between Ulster and the Free State.
Of Ulster Protestants against Ulster Catholics.
Sir m charged that t5e shs border 20
have come from the south.
But apparently. to the explosion of mutual
suspicious and to the discovery of remedies
M that tive two sueh Sensible and men
as Sir James and Collins should m meet: .rs for
following are % the chief items; TENS; o,..n..
undertake to cooperate toward restoration
of peaceful conditions
2. The Ulster special police force is to be
of Catholics and otherwise to insure Its i'm
partialty.
of equal numbers OF Catholics and Protestants.
with a Catholic and a Protestant alternating
nants as to- intmaat,an ana ontrsses ETC. and
special arrangements are to be made for
promptly bringing serious crimes to M trial IT,
4. The provisional government OF the Free
State will make every possible effort to pre-
vent activity. Of Irish republican army de-
s. Representatives Of the two irish gov
ernments to examine whether Irish unity
negative they are to search for some method
Of a boundary settlement other than the one
being obnoxious to Ulster).
6. The British representatives engage to ask
parliament for an a appropriation OF 100000, tS
Ulster minister of labor on public works. for
the relief of the Belfast unemployed The
cial efforts on behalf of the discharged Cath
Ollie workers. who If not m reinstased bee because use
parliamentary appropriation.
Z Both governments engage to release
Ss II should
remove the present danger of war
convention Of republican army mSsinsers
Some two hundred participated mostly very
young men or boys armed to the teeth. They
allegiance to the dali eireann. declared al,
iegiance to the army Of the republic and
lscted an executive committee of sixteen for
tho army.
On March 80 armed men set on fire the
building of the Freemans Journal In Dublin.
the newspaper most ardently supporting the
Free State cause. The degree Of Importance of
vet clear Probably. though not certainly.
they have greatly discredited the simon-pure
republican cause.
The British house of lords has passed the
Irish Free State bill Its going into force will
greatly strengthen the hands OF the pro-
visional Free State government
* 4 X x
Germany,-On March 2s Chancellor Wirth
made "haught and orgulous" speech to the
reichstag upon the utterly impossible and
presumptuous conditions" presented by the
reparations commission in its recent note to
the German government. That note has been
generally commented outside Germany as
clement and reasonable. The items therein
which Wirth finds especially "presumptuous"
are the demand for legislation prior to May
81 to provide for additional revenue of
80 o0o 900 900 paper marks through taxation,
and the announcement that the committee of
guarantee "a committee of the reparatons
commission) is to continue its financial and
economic supervision, with headquarters at
Berlin In return for extraordinary easing of
the schedule of reparation payments, the
reparations commission demands definite