THE IRISH QUESTION.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14885, 27 January 1914, Page 7

THE IRISH QUESTION.

» ULSTER'S GOODWILL. MR REDMOND WOULD PAY HIGH FOR IT. (By Cable.—Press Aseociation.—Copyright.) LONDON, January 25. Mr Redmond, speaking at Waterford, declared that Ulster's goodwill was worth purchasing at a big price. There were no lengths, short of the abandonment of principles, to which ho would ziot go to win that confidence, but he did not see prospects of goodwill being purchased at any price at all. The talk of civil war was absurd, as Ulstermen would never bo attacked. Mr Redmond said that the contest between two Nationalists at Cork for Mr Win. O'Brien's seat was a scandal and a serious blow to the cause. The Primrose League's Ulster refugee scheme has evoked a guarantee of £15,000 in the event of civil war to provide hospitality for ten thousand women and children. ULSTER. VOLUNTEERS. RESERVE FORCE PROPOSED. (Received January ,26th, 10.20 p.m.) LONDON, January 26. A proposal is on foot to raise a volunteer reserve force of 50,000 in Ulster, in order to give the 100,000 volunteers already raised greater mobility, "AS FIRM. AS A ROCK." (Received January 26th, 10.25 p.m.) LONDON, January 26. ■Mr Redmond, speaking at Waterford, said that threats of civil war would not intimidate Mr Asquith, who was as firm as a rock on the Home Rule question.