There are no surprises to see the weight given to the Government’s latest proposal for a settlement of the Irish Question, the report given centre stage on page 5 and the first leader on page 4 concerning the issue. With the plan to grant immediate Home Rule to Ireland save for the six counties of North-East Ulster, the proposals were welcomed by the paper, although the leader claimed it would “studiously refrain from any opinion on the merits of this or that feature of a proposal which is life to their [the Irish parties] sole judgment as trustees of the future of the country” which is a bit of a turnaround from the vast amount of ink spilled on the subject prior to the outbreak of war.