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Show DEI'OUTATIONS TO BEGIN. I ' i p I i: l t iouH for the deportation (if :i na i-c-hist m ul other uiiuVsiralilcs li.no Ii.tii -(.mi.I-I .--1 mid 11 1 e present week is likely lo Willi.' tin- dispatch of (lie first v:tti" 'f llii'H'i mixohu'f'nisilujrs to the. countries wliirli scut I hem to Amcr-ie:i. Amcr-ie:i. Tlie .1 i'in rt nun t o the federal Koverntueiit responsible for the deportations depor-tations litis l.-en under .some rather suv-itjjo suv-itjjo criticism lately, (lie charRO being made that it lias not acted with sufficient suf-ficient .spec! in lietting the radicals out of the country. Washington dispatches would indicate, indi-cate, that the lilame has not been alto-pctlcr alto-pctlcr deserved. The problem of liiinlinR in soviet Kussia t ho Hussiim radicals has presented extreme, difficulties. diffi-culties. The state department has been called upon to find a way of insuring the arrival of the "reds" in some part of Russia controlled by the soviet government.' gov-ernment.' As the United States has not recognized that government it lias 1 no means of communicating with it. Kor n fortnight officials of the department depart-ment havo U'Cii trying to effect negotiations nego-tiations with some of the border states to secure, assurances of safe conduct for the radicals across the line into ! soviet Kussia, hut so far these efforts j liave not been successful. Finland, ! I.otvia, Lithuania and Poland have not expressed any pronounced desiro to permit per-mit the passago of this band of rad-' rad-' icals through their territory. None of them, however, lias absolutely refused : permission. The government is prepared to fur-I fur-I nish necessary escort if n channel can ! bo found through which tho deportod j Russians can bo sent. It lias considered j sending them by way of the Black sea and through the lines held by General IVnikino, but this plan has been dis-.; dis-.; carded as undesirable. Tho Ukraine, I too, has been eliminated because of the difficulty of getting tho radicals to that section. It is probable, therefore, that the Russians will be sent to tho : Baltic sector of tho soviet Russian i boundary, and the Baltic states aro being sounded with this end in view. The reassuring fact is that tho enforced en-forced emigrations are about to begin. They should be continued until every mother's son of an alien hero to breed ! trouble is bundled overseas. CRISIS IN IRELAND. ; On the cvo of Premier Lloyd George's IM-omisctl statement in tho commons of tho British government 's plan for meeting nnd disposing of the Irish problem, a statement "whieh the premier pleaded himvlf to make at tomorrow's session of parliament, an attempt to assassinate as-sassinate Yiseoimt French, lord lieutenant lieu-tenant of Ireland, is reported. If the time for the attack was chosen to indicate in-dicate the spirit in which certain Irish elements are giving welcome to the government 's next attempt to deal with this vexatious question the affair af-fair is given a sinister aspect. Lord French has been dealing with a firm hand since his appointment to his present post. He was mado lord lieutenant lieu-tenant at a time when Ireland was largely quiescent. Now it is in turmoil, due to the activities of t ho Sinn Fein element and the repressive energies of the Imui isli government . Tltat the attempt at-tempt on the life of the vieeregent was deliberately planned admits of no d.ntV. Had il1 assassin's hand been sU-uuier, it would have beon a fatal day for the viceroy and a d i s a s t reus on e for Ireland. The immediate effect of this murder plot will be to revive in greatly in-f in-f r ! : i : 1 iatem-dty tho biuer enmities w hieli ha ve divided Ire la nd into two hosiile camps. The anti-Irish element in Great F"itai:i wiil consider themselves them-selves justified i'i combating any settlement set-tlement which Lloyd George may pro-! peso recognir.ing the right of Ireland! to a larger share of autonomy. The opposition of the Ulster group wiil be magnified. The government has been challenged h de-dare a seuiTioa of the Irish prob- 1 lc:u along Hues o'.l.'r than mere coer cion, ;uul that challenge can not be indefinitely in-definitely deferred. The settlement can i not be arrived at by coercion or re- pri'i o measures, nor concluded by iss;issinatinn plots. The attack on Lord Krench dmibth'ss will bring to a head the political crisis which hris gripped Ireland ever since the radical elements in the inland IdouU'd the imperial authority au-thority by proclaiming their political j independence as republicans. The hands of he Lloyd George gov- 'man ut are' being forced. Not siuee. liit; ('hoi-nix park murd'-rs hps tho rso-I rso-I lu'wie-- of the Irish I"ade-rs had su'-h i .V art iin proof as that affurd'.'d by the ! attempt to assu-.inate Lord French. It ; is ;i ppart'ii t that what, for want of a : better t'-rm, wo call the Irih problem j is ory nar t!ie point of explosion. |