Lonilon, Oct. 1.
In the House of Commons to-day Captain Wedgwood Benn (Liberal) re-opened the Irish debate.
He urged the adoption of an Tm. perial attitude, remembering that the solution of the question lay the unity of Ireland as a Dominion of the British Commonwealth. He quot-fed General Smuts's famous letter: to Mr. de Valera and asked the Conservatives whether we could break our word to the smalls: Dominion without destroying the faith of the whole of the Dominions. Mr. Austen Chamberlain accused the Government of altering the old treaty. He hoped that the Govesament would not destroy the pos y of agreement by putting pressure on one side only.
Mr. J. R. Clynes, the Deputy Leader of the House, deprecated the anticipations in some quarters that disorders in Ireland would follow the operation of the Bill.
Mr. Lloyd George said that the Government action was perfectly justified.
Mr. J. 1. Thomas, winding up, gave a guarantee that the Government did not intend and would not appoint a commissioner when the ill became a Jaw merely as a nominee of the British Government. He would try to find a man who would be a representative of North-fern Ireland. "Mr. Thomas express-fed his Long-rooted distaste at the necessity for the appointment of Tieved, would mean "a permanent partition and be ruinous to Ireland's onomie development. He deelaz that neither of the Trish leaders was unreasonable, bat their post tions were very difficult Later, The Mouse of Commons to-day rejected the Ulster motion for t rejection of the Irish boundary bill by 201 votes to 124, after wi the bill passed its second reading.
London, Oct, 1.
It is reported that the ment intend to nominate Lard Carson to-represent Ulster on tha Boundary Commission—Renter,
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