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an overwhelming majority declared for indegreadence and to set up a Repub- lic and more than once bhave confirmed their choice. Second, Great Britain, on the other hand, acts as though Ireland, were bound to her by a contract of Union that forbids separation. The circcumstances of the supposed con- tract are notorious. Yet on the theory of its validity the British Govt. and Parliament claimed to rule and legis- iate for Ireland even to the point of partitioning Irish territory against the will of the Irish people and killing or casting into prison every Irish cit- izen who refused allegiance. The pro- pesals your Govt. submitted in the draft of July 20th are based fundamentally ou the latter premises. We rejected these proposals and our rejection is irrevocable Thev are not an invitation to Ireland to erter a free and willingpartnership with the free nations of the British Empire. They are an invitation to Ireland to entire in the guise of and under coanditions which determireda status definitely in- ferior to that of the free states. Cana- da, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand all are guaranteed against domi- nation of the mwajority state, not only by - cknowledged constitution r ghts which give them equality of status with Great Britain and obsolute freedom from the control of the British Parliament, but by the thousands of miles which separate them from Great Britain. Ireland would have guarantees ; neither of distance nor of right. The conditions sought to be imposed would divide her into two artifi- cial states, each destructive to the others influence in any ermmon Council and both subjcet to milirary, naval and econ- omie control by the British Govt. The main historical and geographical facts are pot in dispute, but your Govt. insists on viewing them from your stanipoint and we must ve allowed to view them from ours. The hisfory you interpret as dictating umion, we read as dictating separation. Qur interpretation of the fact of geographical propinquity is no less diametrically opposed we are convinced that ours is the true and just intevpretation and as a prnof 2re willing that a vneufral and impartial ar- bitrator should be the judge. You re- tuse and threaten to give effect to your view by force. Our reply must be that if you adopt that course, we cat: only resist as generations before have re- sisted, Force wiil not soive the pro- biem and it will never secure the ulti- mate victory over reason and right. If you again resori to force and if vie- tory be not on the side of justice, the problem that confronts us will not con- front our successors. The fact that for 750 years the problem has resisted stl - tion by force is evidence and warning suf- ficient. It is true wisdom, therefore, and true statesmanship not any false idealism that prompts me and my colleagues. Threats of force must be set aside. They Ea T ORI A Y 1S must be set asiae from the beginning, as well as during actual conduct of the nego- tiations. The respective plenipotenti- aries must meet untrammelled by any conditions save’ the facts themselves and must be prepared to reconcile subsequent differences, not by appeals to force, covert or open, but by refer- ence to some guiding principle upon which there is common agreement. We have proposed the principle of Govt. by consent of the governe , and do not mean it as a mere phrase. It is a simbie expression of the test to which any pro- posed soiution must respond if it is to prove adequate and it can be used as the criterion for the details as well as for the whole. That ycu ciaim it as a pecu- liarly British principle insticuted by the British and now the very life of the Bri- tish Commonwealth, should make it peculiarly acceptable to you. This basis, an 1 this only we see hope of reconciliat- ing the considerations which must govern the attitude of Great Brirain’s represen- tatives withh the considerations which must govern the attitude of Ireland’s representatives and on this basis we are ready at once to appoint plenipotentia- ries. " ~ London, Sept. 3rd. -Reuters despatch- es from India indicate a lall in the sitaa tion at Alimudalie, where the rebel lead- er was arrested. A Simla cable says the miiitary have taken over control at [lir- urangadi, where a _number of Moplahs surrendered] without fighting. Naval assistance is no longer necessary and the warship ‘‘Comus’’ has left Calicut, Particulars of the murder of a retired Hindu inspector oi Police, wino staunchly represented the Govt. show that the reb els stuck th2 head on a pole a :d ecarried it through the bazaar. 1t is reported that 300 Hindus ~f Melmurian Shom were forcibly converted to Istam. Paris, Sept. 3rd.—The Prince of Mon aco is extremely ill at a hote! in the vil- lage of Fontromeu in}t e z2astern Pyren- ees. He had been hunting chamois and caugant a 2oid whica was atiended by a high serer and caused the return of an old malady. Reports received here de- clare that the Prince is very weak. Paris, Sept. 3rd—Col. Edward W. Ryan. of the Amearican Red Cross Com mission in the Baltic States, arrived in Paris today from Riga. More than 200,000 Russians wili die as a resalt «f the famine, despite all tne help the en- tire world can offer and it is ques- tionable if one of them will be a Com- munist, said Col. Rya.,. fondon Sept. 3rd the 8 5. ''Tor cello”’, leaves London next Wednesday with the first cargo of foodstuffs for the reliet of famine s ricken Russia. l'he consignment is being forwarded by Bri- tain’s ‘‘Save T'ae Childran fund’’ and to tals 1,000 tous of rice, 500 of flour, 50 of beans. 150 cocoa and 1,000 cases con- densed milk. The entire consignment will be distributed at Saratoff. situated in the very heart of the distressed area, by a British agent under the general supervisior of,Dr. Hansen. Berlin, Seot. 3rd. -A speech delivered before the Congress of the German Na- tional Peop'e’s Party at Munich yester- day, the former Prussian Minister, Hergt, said: ‘“We regard the German constitution merely as an episode. We will not allow it to keep us from the set- tlement of our highest aims, namely the restoration of the monarchy and the carrving out of the ideas of Kaiser- dom’’. London. Sept. 3rd.—A despateh to Reuter’s Agency from Glasgow says. “From September 9th. German dues for silk piecegoods are advanced three hun- dred percent, making the prices now twelve hundred percent over pre-war prices. German textile houses, antici- pating the official declaration of peace. have inundated home consumers with offers to isupvly goods under British prices and are emphasizing the favour- able character of the exchange sitwma- tion’’. : Foresthills, N. Y., Sept. '4th—The United States retained the Davis Cup International tenuis trophy vestarday when the doubles team of Williams and Washburn defeated the challeng ing Japanese pair, Kumagae and Shi- midzu 65, 4-6, 7-5. The United States players won both singie matches yester- day. The cup belongs tuv the winner of the three out of five matches, so that the singles scheduled for Monday will not affect the retention of the em- blem. NEwW YORK, September Znd 1921. Flour, bLiendad Ciears St. Lawvrence [<rand ur. brl. &8.00. Meal, Kiludried per 100 tbs $1.95 New season’s Pork per bri. $37.00 Heavy Mess Pork per bbl. $25.4 Sugar---Crystals maximum per 160 lbs. $4.61 Molasses Sugar 89 test, no quotation. Cotton. Mid lling Up.and, au i.iverpool per lb, 11 30-1004 d. Exchinge, New York and lLondon, 60 days’ sight $3.88 Exchange New York and Londown, sight 5. 11 LONDON, September 2ud. 1921 Sugar, Demerara Crystals. per ewt. 445. —bls. ** Musecavado pzr cvi 3bs 48s. (zerman Leet 88 r.o.b. no sales. White Java suzar cif United Kingdom 245. September shipment., Den.erora2 Rum, per gal. nominal. Trinida: Cocoa, Gecod Middhing Red per cwi Dos. SHBs. nominal. Cotto good Med:um West Indian Seca [siand per ib. 26d. nominal. Bank of tiagland rate of Discount per cen:. Hi (_‘IUHSOIS 478 : Three per cent rentes in Paris Fes, 56.560,