21 JUNE 1924, Page 9

In two sections of the British Commonwealth the fight for

autonomy which the Canadian Government has been carrying on is, however, being watched with the closest attention, in South Africa and in the Irish Free State. In government quarters in Dublin, the Times correspondent tells us, the authorities " are anxious, for various reasons; to extract the last ounce of political independence " from the Anglo-Irish Treaty as the status of the Irish Free State was explicitly declared in that document to be the same as that of the Dominion of Canada. The Southern Irish Government is therefore quite willing to allow the Ottawa Administration to make the pace for it, and " to insist that every privilege that is won by Canada shall apply also to the Free State."