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Show I British Troops pouring into I ULSTER FOR MARCH SOUTHWARD Stage Set for Military Occupation of Free, State I Should Negotiations Break Down ; De Valera I Said to Welcome Test of Armed Strength By DAVID M. CHURC If International Nous Scn l v LONDON. June 3. British troops aro pouring "Into T'lsier toniffht and the stage is all set for the military occupation of the Irish Free St.it. I: tho Anglo-Irish negotiations rompl.-n -ly break down next week. The seven-tecnth seven-tecnth battalion of the royal fuilcTS recruited to war strength and armed for active service In th tield, left Al-dershot Al-dershot for Belfast this afternoon. A great British war fleet In being assembled In l ister watera. The troops that have been concentrated In Belfast Bel-fast art- moving to the Ulster Kree Slate frontier whi r.', they are occupying occupy-ing strategic towns They are supported sup-ported with heavy slcf.-e guns, light artillery, tanks, armed cars and ma-" ma-" hlr,'- run." WAltFAJU-: PREDICTED An airplane scjuadron baa reached Belfast and a dozen battle planei and i nut planes will arrive within J injurs Officials of the Ulster government believe that the mossing of British troops is the llrwt move in an offensive offens-ive campaign against the Republicans in the Free State. Advleea from Belfast Bay that lead- ers of the Orange faction are Onfi-dent Onfi-dent that the Sinn Felnsrs will nt back down and that the forthcoming week will again see th Btltish in outh Ireland with the nation embroiled embroil-ed in warfare Lord Cavan, chief of the imperial general staff, and the war office have approved plans for a campaign in south Ireland If the Sinn Fcln-rs cause the "peac-o" ncgotltions to fall next rPt. . 1 wt Ir A ltip 1 Mailll In all Ti WUL'K. ill'- iinuiii m i j in nuuj owy- 1 ply men of war and troop transports CHIEF DISTURBANCES At present there is a lull In the Anglo-Irish negotiations with the discussions discus-sions at a deadlock Downing street officials liavo slight hope of an agreement agree-ment being reached next week ' ! The chief disturbing elements in the situation aro the coalition agreement negotiated by Michael Collins and Eamonn DeValem and the proposed Hj Irish constitution The Irish negotiators nego-tiators have sent a communication to H3 Premier Lloyd George replying to the British demands, which is described Bftj u3 "unsatisfactory" but sufficient to arrant a continuance . h. mgotla- A positive statement was made by officials close to Premier Lloyd Georgo i that "Great Britain will never gie up Ireland." It Is claimed that the proposed Irish JH constitution vtrtuallj an Irish republic. Tt is described as "going beyond anything Premier Lloyd 1 George ever dreamed or when he proposed pro-posed an Irish state." The constitution fails to propose any measure of allc-fHH allc-fHH glance by the Irish to George. H Nor does it contain any oath by which members of the Free State parliament Bjj shall pay their :illeglance the Brlt-lsh Brlt-lsh empire. DEMAND KFA1SION The British cabinet, alter reading i ho constitution, demanded that it be r t revised This demand was conveyed to the Irish by Premli r Lloyd George. and Colonial Secretar: Winston , i hurrhill. Meanwhile the leaders of the Irish Hi! provisional government at Dublin art not excited The Dublin eabinet met during the day, but so iar a l irnei, hev 1 1 mi. r.o ;-.i. ritlng Vj i he constitution! Eamonn DeValera is standing pat 1 and his colleagues declare that he will welcome a test of armed strength with the English LONDON PESSIMISTIC LONDON, June 3. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Rupture of the Irish i negotiations again ha been avertod, I but th'-re I'- little dlvpnsllon h. re to take o very optimistic view of the sit- ; ualion i The answers of Arthur Griffith lent of the Dall F.lreann. 10 six I questions put to him by tho British. Cabinet, th nature of which was not given out, were declared ' satisfactory"! following which Mr. Griffith left Pri- i day nigh; for Dublin and Prime Minister Minis-ter Lloyd QeorgS for his holiday al( 'crheleth, Wales. The gloomy feeling here wa in-, creased o v Mr. Griffith s statement before be-fore his departure that the position appeared the same as It was In Decern De-cern ber DE V ALEXIA'S INFLUENCE Tho question of the influence of Eamonn Di Valera, the Irish Republican Repub-lican leader, crops out in many speculations specu-lations and It Is assumed there will have to be some modifications in his pact with Michael Collins before the rival views regarding the new trlsh conntitution can In any way be harmonized har-monized On extreme opinion Is thai Col .ills .il-ls entirely in De Vatera's hands as a result oi their agreement and cannot escape even if he wishes Alluding to the military possibilities Of the situation, the Morning Post's Dublin correspondent says the 15,000 British troops in Dublin paraded today, to-day, on tho occasion of the king s birthday, their bands playing the national na-tional anthem. British Parliament Leader, (Copyright. 1922, by The Standard-Kxamincr Standard-Kxamincr ) LONDON, June 3. Ireland remains our main prt -occupation at the moment. mo-ment. I am sorry to sa that this unfortunate un-fortunate country Is making little headway toward s 'tiled conditions. One musl bops and work for Iho best but there is no disguising ugly developments develop-ments anil it Is a melanchoU fact thai there is as yet no peace and it also -. i i he admitted that unpunished rimes still ar an outstanding feature Of Irish life. The fighting in Dublin anil In ('Ister continues unchecked. The agreement between Collins ani De Valera was aimed at peace and In the first exuberance of feeling the claim was made that hostilities would end In a week. But we have not had even a temporary cessation of the state of war. There has been no im-provemen't im-provemen't In the south and there has been further embittered feeling between be-tween the north and tho south. ELECTION DIFFICULTIES The agreement provided for elections elec-tions in Ulster as well as in the soutn of Ireland. That provision Is at variance var-iance with the London agreement, and, In my opinion, a challenge to Ulster as w 11 as a defiance to Groat. Britain Morcovt r it p. i . a resumption of a ISnn Fein assembly instead of an Irish parliament freely elected. Even If the vote were confined to the south it would be conti iry to the London treaty be SUSS t hi new government would consist nearly half of Republicans, Republi-cans, who openly have declared that they will not subscribe to any oath of allegiance su h as is provided foi in that document. These things have formed the subject sub-ject of long and aiUtlOUS consultations between the British ministers and those from Dublin during the week The results were rommunicated, as you know, to parliament by Mr Churchill on Wednesday He made an ominous reference to the analogous analog-ous situation in the United states lust before the- Civil war there BURNING OP BALLOTS The plea, he said, had been put forward by Mi ssrs Collins and Griffith Grif-fith that ire.- i l.-i :.ans In Ireland wore Impossible undei existing ciroum- stuncos; that tin- ballot boxes would be burned and the papers destroyed. This ho characterized as a reflection on the Irish people but he reminded nil concerned that finnl ratification of the treaty .still Is to be given In Great rtriLain when a constitution la submittal sub-mittal by the provisional government He Mrul Mr. Aaqulth pleaded for patience pa-tience and forbearance for Ireland and for faith in the Irish people and there the matter rests for the moment. mo-ment. The gains so far from the generous action of the king a year ago Is that the treaty haa been drawn up and eluiv signed by Irishmen and that that t r iitv has been recognized throughout through-out the world a- " fair ml far reaching reach-ing that it has aliened public opinion of the world en the side of Great 13 r It -1 ain The nation loyally, and promptly honor a Ite bond in every particular and even went beyond It to meet the difficulties of the Irish sleruitorle.s. Tho next word is with thH Irish people. peo-ple. TIIRKK SHOPS BOMBED BELFAST. June 3 Bombs were thrown this morning Into three sbops at L-etterkenny, County lonet?al All three business places were wrecked. Bands of marauders aro rovlnp through this district Th- burning of a farm house lc attributed to them. A large party of official Irish Republican Re-publican army forces marched from itfi headquarters In Sfligo today and took possession of the town hall there Sentries were posted preventing the entrance of unauthorized persons The seizure i believed to bo connected with the coming elections on |