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Show MOVE TO RESTORE PEACEJNJRELAND PLAN CONTEMPLATES INDUCING ULSTER LEADERS TO AQRE TO PARTITION PROPOSAL. Negotiations Said to Be In Progress Between British Prime Minister and Ulster Leader with Hope of Reaching Settlement Dublin. Interesting rumors nro circulating cir-culating In Dublin with regard to fresh efforts the government Is reported to be making to effect a settlement with Ireland. The belief Is growing that an Important development may coma to light when parliament reconvenes. According to ono report, tho government govern-ment Is trying to bring the Ulster lenders lend-ers Into lino with n well-formulated scheme to porsundo tho south to accept ac-cept the partition provided for tn tho homo rulo act and work under It. This version of tho reputed phms has It that the prlzo to bo offered for acceptance ac-ceptance Is n grant of full fiscal nutonomy to both sections of Ireland. This would bo coupled, so far as tho south Is- concerned, with nn offer to release political prisoners nnd grant amnesty to Irlstu republicans generally, general-ly, Including members of the Irish republican re-publican urmy, and even men "on thu run." Negotiations to this end nro now proceeding, pro-ceeding, It Is snld, between Sir. Lloyd George, the prime minister, and Sir Kdwurd Carson, Ulster leader, In tho Rrltlsb parliament, on tho outcome of which depends whether the plan will be formally announced. Representatives of the Sinn Fein have refused to treat the reported scheme seriously, wiylng that until some concrete, bona fldo proposals had actually been .made they would not waste time In speculation. Prominent Nationalists, when their views were sought In tho sumo connection, con-nection, said they had nn doubt that n concession of fiscal autonomy would go far toward satisfying the Irish people's demand for Independence, and, If offered In a generous spirit, would greatly weaken the position of tho Sinn Fein If tho republican parliament parlia-ment should reject It. |