IRISH-AMERICAN MISSION TO PARIS

IRISH-AMERICAN MISSION TO PARIS
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NO COMPROMISE
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A telegram from New York on Tuesday says:-
Mr. Frank P. Walsh, ex-Chairman of the War Labour Board; Mr. Edward S. Dunne, ex-Governor of Illinois, and Mr. Michael K. Ryan, formerly member of the Pennsylvania Public Service Commission, who are going to Paris to present Ireland's claim to self-determination to the Peace Conference, are sailing for Europe to-day. Yesterday evening the party was given a farewell reception, at which Mr. Walsh, is a brief speech, described the mission as being "the most unique and beautiful adventure that men were ever priviliged to undertake." If the Peace Conference, Mr. Walsh added, persists in its refusal to hear the delegation of the Irish Republic, the mission will ask to be heard as "American [Aemircan] citizens speaking for the Irish Nation." If the request should be denied, Mr. Walsh said, the delegation could only come home to let the people know that the pledges made to our country have not been carried out. Mr. Dunne declared that the delegates would not be satisfied with a compromise, but that they demanded, with the backing of a hundred million people, that Ireland should be given the right to live under a republican for mof government. Mr. Ryan asserted that unless Ireland was given her freedom there would be no real world peace and no honest League of Nations.