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London, March 3lst -——The treaty with Hungary was severeiy criticised in the House of Lords iast night by Lord New- ton and Lord Bryce, the tformer asking whether Hungary's request for a revi- sion of its hard provisions had been de- fiaitely refused, and why the millions of population severed from Hungary had not been allowed to decide their fate by a plebiscite. l.ord Bryvce said we have already had a sviemr warning of the effect of a peace conce ved in a spirit of revenge. The Earl of Crawford, Chan- cellor of the buehy o1 Lancas.er, reply- ing tor the Government, said it as im: possibie for any stateémentto be made apart from the Allies, hut he added that the Peace Conrerznce had refused to hear the Hungarian case. London, March 3lst.—Sir Edward Carson was one of tie iirst speakers when the House of Comnions resunied its consideration ot the lrish Bill. He declareg that he wisthed to reiterate his opposition to the whole policy of Home Rule for lreland. He said that he never had believed in it and did ‘not believe in it now, and .expressed his belief that it would be disastrous both to lreland and. to England. He deplored the faet that Ireland would give up her representation in the House of Commons, because every injustice committed towards Ireiand was inilict- ed betore the union arnd nct since, and that none of them would bheve been possible with the present representa- tion of Ireland in the imperial Parlia- ment. Heurged that there was no al- ternative to union except separation, and under this bill he believed that a lever was being given Parliaments ene- mies in Ireland by which they might, under the guide of constitutional law attain results which would be absolute- ly tatal to the empire, therefore he could take no responsibility for the scheme. He declared he wduld not vote for thebill, but would not do any- thing to prevent the bill becoming law. Sir Edward said that hg would welcome THE ST. 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Cectl Harmsworth, Uuder Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said in th House of Commons yesterday that the Govt was unable to confirm. that fthe French had advised women and children to evacuate the town of Hadjin, or that . fresh massacres were oceurrirg nearby. Toronto, March 31st.—The announce- men' this wmorning that the Toronto “World’> had been forced to make an assignment is another evidence of the serious position in whi¢h newspaper pub- lishers find themselves, owing to the rapidly increasing cost of news-print wages. The "‘World’”’ which is owned by Mr. MecLean, M. P., is one o{ the best known r®ewspapers in Canada, and is the sezond [oront» newspaper to hiave ‘ound itself in financial difficulties within the past nine monibs. Copenhagen, March 3lst.-—A general strike will go intoeffeet throughout Den- mark on Tuesday next, followinz the re- jecticn by King Christian and the new Ministry of the offer by the trade unions to turnish a compromise in the political crisis, if the Rigsdag was convened im- mediately. The strike was declared by the Trades Union Congress. London, March 31st.— Attention being called in the House of Commons today ‘to the American naval estimares Mr Long, First Lord of the Admiralty, No.: 82, anvone from the South and West of Ireland to come iorward with out- stretched nands and say “"You and 1 are members of the same country, we love our country and we must do ouar best starting in good temper to govern under the new Parliam:nts which will he entrusted to us’’. Uls er, he declar- ed, would look forward to the time when, under these conditions they might unite under one Parliament, but unfortunate- ly this was not yet ‘heir task. One thigngz' he. concluded, he would promise, name!y. that Ulster would do her level best with her Parliament. Keplying to the arguments against the Jrish Bill My, Lloyd George declared that the Govt. had e ¢ry reason to be satisfied with the course of the debate. sit demonstrated that th.e Governments plan was the only one in the field. The difficulty of the problem. said the Prewicr, was thai no prop~sals which would be ucceptable to any party in this country would be ac- cepted by any party in Ireland. If the people of Ireland were asked what plan they would accept, they would say by an emphaticmajority, we want independ- ence at dan Irish Republic. He insisted that there was no use talking about self-determimation, since those who sup- ported it must go the full length of granting ar. Irish Republic. Self-deter- mination continued the Premier, does not mean that every part of courtry which has been acting together for a hundred years should have the right to say ‘"We mean to set up a separate re- public’> There must be a limit to its application by the people, othe wise it might be carried to every locality and every country throughcut the world, continuing, he asserted that no one had accz2pted the plan of Mr. Asquith. Dealing with a suggestion made by Mr. Clynes, labour for a constituent as- sembly, the Premier said tie previous Irish ¢onvention had failed, and he ask- ed if 1t was likely that the assembly proposed by Mr. Clynes would be any miore successful, since any proposal which Irish opinion would by a large majority accept would not be accepted by any party in Great Britain, there- fore the Government must exercise judgement for the United Kingdom and the 'vhole Empire, in order to come to the wisest conclusion pnssible. Mr. Lloyd George said he wanted to say to our American friends that Mr. Devalera was putting forward the same claim, in [ Continued om 4th page]