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Show PEACE RUMORS CHIEF TOPIC IN LONOPPERS Generally Conceded That Stage of Definite Negotiations Negotia-tions Has Not Arrived j LONDON. Dec 7. (By the Assoc! 1 ated Press.) Sir Hamar Greenwood.' chief secretary to Ireland. declared! emphatically amlelst cheers In the) house of commons today that he "waaj convinced there in be no truce or successful advocacy of a truce, in Iceland Ice-land until the extreme leaders of tno Irish republican army ulthe; surren- der and deliver their urtris or arc ar- t'eltCd." j LONDON, Dec 7 Efforts to ar-i ar-i range a truce in Ireland was the dominating dom-inating topic of this morning's newspapers, news-papers, which printed many rumors; gathered In Dublin and London. Th' BB showed Intense interest in the situation, situa-tion, r.ncl a widespread hope f.u- definite def-inite results from the exchanges ofj views now' understood to be going on.1 One Dublin dispatch declared there was no ch;.nco of a truce, while Arthur Ar-thur Griffith and the MacN'eil broth-J ers. prominent Sinn Fein leaders, wcrej kept i i prison. It Is pretty general!', concede. I tha. conversations have not as yet reached the stage of definite negotiations. (, UN ll I I l l li The government vvas again elef.-ated ' In the House of Lords tonight when an amendment proposing u new clause to Ihe home nil. I. ill oifeied by ti e Marquis Mar-quis of Salisbury was carried, fifty-one' to fifty. This amendment provides further fur-ther that northern and southern parliaments par-liaments should be established under the king's authoruy. and the protec-J Hon of the rights and liberties of all pi rsOns in bolt) northern and southern, Ireland were fulty assured and Dial otherwise the appointed day for putting put-ting the act into Poire shotud be fixed by resolution of the Imperial p.irllu-' ment. VM1 X DM JEN r ( l I'll 1 The general belief vvas expressed In the lobbies of the house thsit oorac of ; the changes in the bill as maele In the House of Fords would not bis persisted In It is expected that the proposal propos-al to substitute h Joint session of slmi-ates slmi-ates for the Irish council will not bo' pressed. 1 j Strong opinions expressed by many members caused the government to j yield ami accept an amendment to the bill depriving tho Irish parliament Of I power lo levy o surtax in addition to the income tax or supertax. Another a meiielment proposing to estublish a single Judiciary for the! whole of I. -eland Instead of two separate separ-ate judiciaries was rejected 75 to -8. |