The New York herald., 1922-06-03
Leader Returns to Ireland
and Lloyd George Goes
to Wales.
ULSTER FOR USE OF ARMY
Churchill Promises 1t to Pro
tect Border, but Not for
Sectarian Fight.

Special Gable to THE NEW YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1879, BY TIE NEW YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
London, june 2. I
The Irish, negotiations here took a
distinct tone for the better tonight.
The danger of either civil war in Ire
land or British reoccupation for the
moment has been eliminated. Arthur
Griffith and his advisers tonight
drafted a letter to Premier Lloyd
George answering six definite ques-
tions in such satisfactory manner
that Premier Lloyd George went to
Wales to rest and Griffith to Ireland
to consult his colleagues, and it was
announced that the negotiations would
be resumed Tuesday.
Meanwhile Griffith is believed TO
have received favorable reports from
Michael Collins, head of tie Pro-
visional Government, who preceded
him to Ireland last night. Collins's
mission admittedly mas to try to get
Eamon de Valera to interpret bis sig
nature to the truce pact in such n
fashion as to meet the views which
tie British Cabinet expressed in the
course of the conference.
The representations OF Griffith and
Collins with regard to the necessity for
the De Valera-Collins pact are under
stood finally to have been convincing
in the form in which they were en-
bodied in to-night's letter. This, it is
said, made it clear that the coming
panel election was merely a means to
an end. In private conversations the
Dublin delegates had explained how the
destruction Of q single ballot box would
tnvalidate the election in an entire dis
trict and had shown how impossible it
was under existing conditions to pro-
tect boxes in scattered precincts. Hence
the necessity for an agreement with the
De Valerists. 1t is the belief Of the
PROFESSIONALS that once the first election
has been held to comply with the terms
OF the treaty they will then be able to
hold an absolutely free election within
twelve months.
This understanding, together with the
matter of the Free State Constitution
and its relation to the treaty, it is re-
ported tonight, forms the basis of the
six questions which the PROFESSIONALS an
swered satisfactorily The situation is
oy no means out of the woods yet, but
persons familiar with the negotiations
believe settlement is in sight.
Meanwhile Ulster stin remain the rock
about which Irish affairs ebb and flow.
The entire day was spent in sending
letters back and forth between Sir James
Craig and the Marquis of Londonderry
on one side and Winston Churchill and
the British Cabinet on the other. 1t
was understood tonight that final un-
derstanding is about reached between
them.
The Ulsterites are pressing for fur
ther liberty Of action to be granted
to the commander of the British troops
on the Ulster border, and Mr.. Churchill
and the Cabinet are presenting In {.
manner much stronger than might be
expected the view that sectarian war
fare in Belfast must cease. Both Sir
James Craig and the Marquis of Lon
donderry are understood to have given
pledges that they would try once more
to quiet affairs In that city.
Mr. Churchill assured them that they
would get the full aid OF British forces
to protect the border against southern
menace but refused to let the troops
participate In the sort of fighting now
going on in Belfast or to cross into Free
state territory.