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Show BRITISH TO POSH I HOI RULE BILL Plan to Enroll Civilian Guards Opposed By Nationalists Na-tionalists DUBLIN. Sept 29 (Correspond- H once of the Associated Press). The hHH appointment of Sir Ernest Clarke as a( H new under secretary in Ireland t;pe-' clally for the Northeast areu is regard -HH ed hero as showing the intention of the goernment to proceed with its ( 3jjKm home rule bill, The essential feature fj of that bill is the provision of two SSHfll parliaments Jn Ireland and so long as' H the Coalition government lasts it is tflJHj expected to Insist on preserving the( senarate t rea t ma n l of the Northeast Ulster. Since it is contemplated to IH have a parliament in working order D in Belfast early next year, whatever HB the rest of Ireland does, it is obvious- H ly convenient to have during the Inter- H val an official administration which F will lead up to the change. PLAN DENOl Nt I li. The plan of enrolling ' well disposed fTOnfi citizens in Belfast to assist the author- tH ities." which means the recognition In H some form of the Ulster Unionist or- H ganication and its Volunteers looked IH at here from the same point of view. H It is vigorously denounced bj the Nu- H tlonalists throughout Ireland as a fl yielding by the government to Sir Ed- H ward Carson. In the view of the gov- EH ernment it is merely an anticipation by IB a few months of the powers which the jH Belfast governmoql will have when lH the home rule bill comes into oi ra- KH tion. The belief is that the recognized HH existence of such force would tend rajJM to check the rioting of irresponsible ijffJ ,, I" "I'll' Though (lx governmei.t di :x. B lons wi" be agreeable to Unionist Bel-! MH fast they have disheartened southern SEf! Unionists who see that they point to !iigff- partition. BMW The Irish Times says So long as Ij it is possible to assume thaht the ap- pointment of an assistant under secre-' tary for Northeast Lister Implies the passage md enforcement of the partition parti-tion bill that appointment will be an obstacle In the pair of peace." I ULSn UK OIA STEERS. ' The same paper objects also to ihe' rei ognltlon of the lister olunteers It' K ' 1 "The Ulster Volunteers are well drilled and organised. Many of them! are men of substance, and education, oi ' ustomed to the exercise of large responsibilities, re-sponsibilities, uur fear is, however.! that the official recognition of the I Northern Volunteers or of anv large I number of them would complete the unhappy marshalling of Ireland into two armed campa If the Northern! forces are-taken Into the service of the crown, the republican armies will accept ac-cept the challenge and the stage will be set for a tradegy of civil war that provoked perhaps by some trivial incident, in-cident, rimy drown the hist hopes of Irish settlement in a sea of blood " |