Bisbee Daily Review

DE VALERA NOT YET READY TO ACCEPT OFFER
Deems Unity Of Ireland Essential To Peace; Seeking Conferences
WRITES ULSTER CHIEF
Invites Sir James Craig To Discuss Issues With Him In Dublin Monday
DUBLIN, June 28.-(By the Associated Press)-Eamonn de Valera, the Irish republican leader, is not yet ready to give a definite answer to Premier Lloyd George's letter inviting him to a conference for an Irish settlement. He has briefly replied to the premier, however, expressing the earnest desire for a lasting peace, but deems unity of Ireland essential to that end.
The Irish Bulletin, organ of the Dail Eireann, in a special issue, publishes De Valera's reply to the British prime minister. It is as follows:
"I am consulting with such of the principal representatives of our nation as are available. We most earnestly desire to help in bringing about a lasting peace between the people of these two islands, but see no avenue by which it can be reached if you deny Ireland essential unity.
Before replying more fully to your letter I am seeking a conference with certain representatives of the political minority in this country."
De Valera has written to Sir James Craig, the Ulster premier, Earl Midleton, who in 1920 advocated one parliament for southern Ireland, with the six Ulster counties under the imperial parliament, Sir Maurice Dockrell, member of parliament for the Rathmines division of Dublin county, who has returned as a Unionist supporter of the coalition government except as to its Irish policy of home rule, Sir Robert Henry Woods, member of parliament for Dublin University and former president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and Andrew Jameson, asking them to meet him at the Mansion House, Dublin, on Monday for a conference. He wished, he said, to learn from them at first hand the views of the people they represent.