25 DECEMBER 1920, Page 2

Further telegrams have passed between the Prime Esni 5tel and Father

O'Flanagan. On Friday, December 17th, Father O'Flanagan telegraphed that the Government, while sending messages of peace and goodwill, had "intensified their fiendish attacks" upon life, liberty, and property :— "How hollow your fair words read in the newspapers sand- wiehed In between the burning of Cork and the murder of Canon Magner and Timothy Crowley 1 If you really wish for peace, allow the constitution adopted by the Irish people at the last General Election to perform its legitimate functions, and acts of violence will soon become as rare in Ireland as they are In any of the most peaceful nations in the world. Then arrange the terms of a treaty by direct negotiations with the official bead of the Irish nation, President de Valera."