10 DECEMBER 1921, page 1

The Irish Free State Is To Assume Her Share Of

liability for the service of the National Debt and for the payment of War pensions. No doubt the Irish will put in considerable counter- claims or set-offs, and provision is......

News Of The Week.

T HE announcement that the Government and Sinn Fein have come to terms has, of course, eclipsed all other news of the week. We believe that there is at last to be peace, if only......

Article No. Xi. Brings Us To The Case Of Ulster.

It is provided that until a month has elapsed from the passing of the Act of Parliament embodying the Agreement the Act shall not apply to Northern Ireland. The 'present method......

On Monday Afternoon The Representatives Of The Government...

Sinn Fein sat for four and a-half hours without coming within sight of an agreement. As " A. P. N.," of the Daily Chronicle, who is always well informed on such matters, says,......

We Must Now Summarize The Agreement As Briefly As Possible.

It is headed A Treaty between Great Britain and Ireland." Ireland is to have the same constitutional status as that of any other Dominion in the British Empire and is to be......

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