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Show Great Britain Rejects Secession of Ireland LONDON, April 27 The question was raised in tho house of commons today 'whether tho government's attention at-tention had been drawn to "the official offic-ial statement of the new British ambassador am-bassador lo the United States in which he declared proposals for tho secession of Ireland from the British empire had been rejected." Andrew Bonar Law replied that the ambassador undoubtedly referred, to the secessionist policy of the Sinn Feiners which, he said, of course had been repudiated by the government. On his arrival in the United States Sir Auckland Geddes,- the new British ambassador, said: J "It should, I think be known that proposals for the secession of Ireland from the British empiro have been! submitted to tho British cabinet, but as announced by the prime minister in ; the house of commons, have been re i jected." |