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Show HOME IE ACT DECLARED DOOMED Sir Hamar Greenwood Said to Have Arrived at ; This Conclusion BY DENIS OXONNELL. Universal Service Staff Correspondent. Special Cable Dispatch. IUIU.IN, Feb. 5 The present Irish home rule act will be. drastically amended when the British parliament meets at Westminister, 1 am able to ay in supplementing my information that the present scheme of Irish government gov-ernment is doomed. The chief point in the speei h of King i.eorge to the house of Westminster will deal with these amendment!. Since Sir Hamar (.reenwood's ar-I ar-I rival here, he has been in constant J consultation with Iublin castle with ' reference to the southern parliament. He came here full of hopes that the proportionate representation would in nurv sufficient members to constitute a quorum-oVapltP fTiP DjitwisliHm nt the Sinn I'einers. But the chiefs advised ad-vised him that the whole of southern Ireland would elect members who would ignore the assembly and that the opening day would see only three or four unionists in attendance. NEGOTIATIONS. This view was forced on (Ireenwood. with the result that, for some days, he has been negotiating with the Carson-Uc. Carson-Uc. in I'lwter and they have accepted a aerits of proposals, of which the whole purport, it is learned, is fiscal autonomy of the north and south. It is unlikely that the Sinn Felners will accept any scheme which does not erect a legislative body governing Ireland as a whole, but the government govern-ment so far apparently has not sounded sound-ed t hni out as regards the scheme un foot. jf The telephona? wires out of Belfast were rut this morning and there wax no communication with Dublin for the rest of the day. CASUALTIES. An official list of casualties on the government side, from January, 1919. ti last evening, was made public today. to-day. The following totals are shown : Point lulli !, I'Li.i, wounded. 'ZM; mil. itary killed, ;i6; wounded, 14; civilians killed, MS; wounded 115. The latter category includes only those killed by the Sinn I'einers in their in i a i-km. I Six women teachers of the Domlnl- I inn convent in Dublin who refused to I K've t heir names to soldiers raiding; I i he convent were arresied today and taken to jail. REPRISALS. Official reprisals were made today at New Dallas and Pronkeen, where houses and shops were burned in retaliation re-taliation for the attack on a detaeh-ment detaeh-ment of policemen on Thursday when eleven were hot. s Th crown forces were active in run'fn this morninK making raids. The headquarters of t he Gaelic league in I'arneli Square was raided. Awards of $187,000 as compensation for property destroyed hy crown forces it r Kmiistimon nnd other villaKa In 'ounty (tre, have been made by .ludKe Bodkin. Jle held that the burn-ins: burn-ins: of the property concerned as reprisals re-prisals was unnecessary and that it was not likely to secure the maintenance main-tenance of law in Ireland. |