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Show DM' H TO GET PEACE FORJM: Strong Sentiment Prevails for Tmce But Some Object to Armistice jB DUBLIN. Dec C. Determined ef- Hl forts io bring about an early peace hi Ireland are being iar.de here. Con-v, Con-v, jiy versatlons have been in progress moi KV L than a week and hope was pn seed I A last night by eon t those in the negotiations that within another '$H9 neck a tangible ba! of settlement , j3B ir.tght be reached. The chief mediator .jttftH at work Is the Rev, Joseph Patrick :ll Kline, bishop of Perth, Australia, who. ii is understood hai en asked 1 !$Jml Premier Lloyd George tq sound out jltflH Sinn Fein sentiment and prepare, if SqfMH possible the ground on which a foun-'iffH foun-'iffH datlon for the peace edifice can be j reared TKj SENTIMENT FOB TKUCE :!;. There is a general ' ntim nt, strong- if 1 ly backed by ecclesiastical influence. I J in favor of n truce but there in no ex- HMI pectatlon that any Sinn K Iner of an authoritative position b able to mt th' government on essential con-dilloris. con-dilloris. Leading Blnn Pernors deny participation In the rumored negotfa- MsM Hons. ' -w The Sinn Fein organ says that thej government repressive m isun -ire merely undertaken to force a com-! promli e n i I r i ted jhfi( Arthur Griffith, founder oi the Sinn iU-BH rein, wnej is in prison, mum -vi j. ocu- wH derson and Issued this message to the $liB Irish people: B3gM 'Today is Ireland's Valley Forge: i tomorrow will bo Ireland's orkto ST A Christinas truce in Ireland was nH suggested by Roger X. Sweetman', a WLm Sinn Fein member of parliament who recent!) urged that ad1 u hould WW ., taken of the English labor com- LfcJflf mission's visit to Ireland to bring Hjfl about a conference between the com- BM mission and the Irish labor party, the Irish peace conference and the Cath-j rejH olle hierarchy to enlist all moderati H opinion In Ireland In support of Car-, nHfl dtnal Logue'S appeal for a 'truce for M God." RELATIONS BROKEN, t I. AIM HB LONDON. Dec. 6 Unofficial rela- ipH tions between members Of the British jirB ministry and Sinn Fein leaders have B been entirely interrupted, says the JkW London Tunes in . ommentlng on ru- jB mors of peace negotiations In Ireland "An emir..it Irish writer." says the Tlmia, a ly furnished Premier H; Lloyd C, (.' with more valuable in HH; formation than had been contained In BH' official reports, but thi arrest of Ar-I bH thur Griffith, which was mail" without H the knowledge or consent of the cabl- Ht net. checked, If it did not actually in-1 H) terrupt, exchanges of views. Ht "Discussions that had been going; on 91 have not involved any question of Qg abandoning the home rule bill, the Bkkj issue belnK an amendment of that measure in a direction of fiscal ami H financial autonomy, provided that af- H iLp- !' a line.- u;e arranged the inajoritv of the lush electorate outside '1" sis counties of Ulster s'tmuM indicate ! readiness to accept the measure thus u m-ndcd M( i s I ( IB PEACE Though one phase of the negotiations negotia-tions may nave broken down, the gov- rnment is still exploring such ave-nues ave-nues toward peace as may . still be open. It Is e!ar Influences Inimical to any Irish settlement are seeking d-llberately d-llberately to obstruct the government' plan, it has suggested Premier Lloyd George has acted behind the backs of his colleagues, and that spy dealing With leaders Oi ihe popular movement lo Ireland Will incur strong disapproval disapprov-al from one section of the coalition cabinet" j |