16 OCTOBER 1920, Page 1
Sir Hamar Greenwood, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, made it
clear, in a speech at Belfast on Wednesday, that the Govern- ment would proceed with the Home Rule Bill, which will be the first business before the House when it meets next Tuesday. They were prepared, he said, to "enlarge the Home Rule Bill in
the most generous way possible" and "to go further on the financial side in meeting the wishes of the people of Ireland." But they would not tolerate an independent Ireland, in whole or In part, inasmuch as they believed in the Imperial and strategical unity of the British Islands.
