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Show ACTS TO AVERT CLASH IN ERIN ! Lloyd George Urges Craig and Collins to Settle Boundary Dispute j ow n m 1 111 Hi H loan n llonal pfwam St n h IX)ND(N. Fab. l'remler lioyd Oaorgs foniirht --tepped In to avert a new thrtauned armd clah In Ireland. Ire-land. ' Following afternoon report of, thi..itened or impending movement of L'lstar volunteers to the southern boundary, the premier, according to the Hundv Kxpress, haa avitad both I Sir .lame? Craig, the t'lsttr premier, an I Mlchaol Collins. Irish free state I leader, to London for a conference OVer the crisis arlsinn from the proposed pro-posed revision of the I ir'tet frontier line. TKMNt. rO OKI 1 ' I 'ow ning street officials have intimated inti-mated fhul Hrltlsh troops Will be re- 1 njrind lo Ireland In even! of Jin armed conflict which might lead civil war in Ireland. Then- ure thbu- ' wnds .f British troops in Ireland that J have not boon evacuated due to the j difficulty of transportation. The British government frankly looks with favor upon th proposal 1 made by I'oMlns to Craig In their lat- I eal eonferonce in Dublin. Collins sug- geted that all parliamentary repre- ' Heilt 11 t l en of Ihm u hnl nf ll-ol,.n.l l.e called toReiiiei to adopt a policy and frame n constitution for all Ireland. Craig Is withholding his reply pendin? COnattltaUOB with the Lister loablnal in thi maantlmfl h; has 1 la-. 1, making eiforts lo secure from the British government a grant pf -' ." ii(l sterling n irmallj s.7:'0.0o0 which he claims Britain owes to lister - 1 ICK H 1 1 : 1 71 t Bi U sfav rORK, 1 nib. l.-r-Natlonal IdxsOlitlVSS Of the American Ai"&.cia rtlon for the itecognitlon of 111 Irtoh Xepubllc, rathsrsd from 'id states tonight, to-night, had gun on 1 ecord as reafflrm-I reafflrm-I Ing the object of the association to "secure tho official recognition of the j republic ol Irsland b the uovernmenl of the I'nlted States and the support I '! at republic by such lawful means a may be nectsuory to that end." Resolutions adopted , n- execu-tlven execu-tlven declared hat statements of the Irish signatories to the "so-called troaty" and "public avowals of thi prima minister of England." ohowed the Irish signatures v.e.o Obtained "umjor threm of a renewal of war." They declared that the Irish republic still exists, in spite of the formation of ih Irlnh free state. I Ml. OPENING Ml LlYI ;i DUBLIN, Feb. I. (By The Asso- , dated Presn. 1 -The roaseembllng of I I he Ii.ul Kireann, which had been set ' for i-'ebrunrv IJ ha h.jn ninnU,i j until February 28. it was announced today. Too chnnge of date Is In con-j con-j sequence of the postponement of the Ard-Fhes. or annual convention of the Gaelic league of Ireland, from I February 7. olnrT to the threatened! J lailway strike. |