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Show TIME WORKING FOR DEVALERA Orgy of Bloodshed in Erin Serves to Hush Noisy Quarreling BY G I SORG l n VRNES British Parliament l-inier Special Wireless to Tho Standard-Examiner. (Copyright, 1922. by The Standard-Examiner.) Standard-Examiner.) (Time is working against the Collins government In Ireland because that government lacks the mandate of the people. Do Valera Is playing for indefinite in-definite postponement of the election In tho hope that time will break down the Collins provisional control and restore re-store him to power Furthermore I Valera s basing his now campaign on the issue of complete acceptance or complete rejection oC tho English agreement Ho has abandemcd his substitute resedutlon of acceptance.) LONDON. Feb. 2 5 Last week's orgy of bloodshed at Belfast, together with this week's murders of British officers of-ficers at Cork and Dublin, have paradoxic. para-doxic. ills enough improved the situation situa-tion In Ireland. For they have sobered sober-ed the spokesmen of both main denominational de-nominational sections of that unhappy country . Hitherto it has been the case for each side to blame the other for all acts of violence. Recrimination now has he-en ruled out by obvious ract.-. Tho killing and malmlngs arc tho work of miscreants on both sides. Even if most of the 32 Belfast deaths could be traced to Catholics ir Is still true that tho diabolical act in the nprtnern capltol was the throwing of a bomb Into a crowd of children a play In the CathollO part r.f.thc city. The leaders ein bolh sides are somewhat some-what abashed In tli.it chastened mood renewed efforts arc being maao to reach a common understanding-Mike understanding-Mike Collins, head of the free state, and Sir James Craig, l ister premier, have each appointed liason officers to patrol the boundar line with a v.ew- oi pr' e ni i ng mi una uummiKI or raids from either side pbopogan i) ii gi:b John Devy. an old associate of Mlchae-I Davit's, has -onie out on tho side of Collins and the so nt h i-1 ii people on the whole appear to ho settling down lo normal life. All of this can be countered on the asset side from tho point of view of the restoration o order and a new era In Irish life on ! the terms ot the Downing street agreement. agree-ment. But there Is an clement In the situation situa-tion which cannot be lgtlOrCd and that is time- Tho beads of the provisional government are in an unevlablo position posi-tion In that they arc noting In behalf of a people difficult to govern because of past raisgovcrnment. it is a condition con-dition of things which is bound to de-I de-I 'clop difficulties the longer it lasts. Eamonn De Valera has carried his point with tho Sinn Fein of postponing an election until after the formulation of a constitution, H 1S also to bo ob-served ob-served that in tho propaganda on which he has launched himself he has drppped Iho much discussed "docu ment No. 2' wlch was to be the Dublin Dub-lin alternative to the agreement slgn-j slgn-j oil by bis original plonlpol.-nt i.i rl,-- .mil he Is focussing the attention of tho j prospective ele-ctors to the clear and I narrow Issue of acceptance or rejec-I rejec-I tlon of the treaty. DISQ1 LETTING FEATURES j Meantime there arc two other rather dlsnulctlng features In the Situation which have presented themselves dur- I inu- the week. First there Is the fact that .some of the southern Irish armed torcci have been out of hand, and, second, there was tho feeling ogalnst the treaty exhibited ex-hibited at ihe Sinn l oin club's convention con-vention at Dublin on Wednesday, Nelthei of these, however, need be taken too seriously. They are after but exhibitions of emotional extremist ex-tremist sections bred and nurtured In five yours of ferment Tet Ihcy do serve to emphasize a need for the earllst possible appeal to people who must ultimately wume final rcapon-j slbility. Th-- iixinic if the boundary linos is jjolnc to be th rnopt troublesome element ele-ment In the near futuie. It should. If povslble. ,e settled now hy consent, but unfortunately neither side seems ills-pOBd ills-pOBd (it present In ;ippr(i:ieh ll In ll ren- sonahle i i r 1 1 Palling such p settle ment now It should he allowed to stand over until such time as both Dublin and Belfast frot settled down to ailminlxler tho respective areas a.s ileii-mlt'ed ileii-mlt'ed In the act of 1920. liy that time bolh may be imbued with due sense of responsibility. There Is no urgency, nor se. for any adjustment r i in- bun ndaxy. New York to Liverpool flights may H be made by un airplane with a pro- I peller run by three 4400-horsepower jH |