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On Friday evening, September 18th, Mr. Do Valera telegraphed another

letter to Mr. Lloyd George, in which he said : " I am surprised that you do not see that, if we on our side accepted the conference on the basis of your letter of September 7th without making our position equally clear, Ireland's representatives would enter the conference with their position misunderstood." He ended the letter by saying that it ought to be obvious that it there was to be any result from a conference, "the negotiators must meet without prejudice and untrammelled by any con- ditions whatsoever, except those imposed by the facts as they know them."

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