ULSTER WAR THREAT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1508, 2 August 1912, Page 5

ULSTER WAR THREAT.

MR- BONAR LAW'S SPEECH. / i INDICTMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER. - INCITING TO VIOLENCEBy Telegraph—l'l-ess Association—Copyright tllee, Augu-t 2, 0.35 a.m.) London, August 1. During a debate' in the llou-o of ■ Commons on Irish Supply, 31 r. Devlin, Nationalist member for lich'asl, described the l!i'l!'a~t law-breakers as Sir Edward Carson V dupes. ]h> blamed the recent Blenheim .speech of .Mr. Bonar Law, " Leader of the Opposition. ' Sir Edward ('arson replied that lie would never countenance acts like those 1 at the Belfast shipyard. The main cause of the disturbances was Ifome liule, which had aroused the deepest passion. Mr. Bonar Law declared that his Blenheim words had been carefully written out beforehand. He withdrew nothing. The situation was more serious than any sineo IGI2. Every member of the Unionist party endorsed every word ho had uttered. The men of North-east Ulster would act up to their declarations, and until thero was evidence that 1 lie Government was supported by 'ho British electorate Homo liule should not be established. , The Premier, Mr. Asriuith, said lie questicned whether any parallel could be found in the speeches of any responsible statesman for the language used at Blen- ' heini by tho Leader of the Opposition. , Mr. Bonar Law now said a minority - wculd bo right in resisting Homo Rule by force. What if ho himself wcro returned to poWcr, and an overwhelming majority of the Trish registered the law and pointed to Mr. Bonar Law's language in justification? Mr. Bonar Law's doctrine meant the nbsolnlo end of Parliamentary Government. The Premier added that ho considered Ihe speech a declaration of war against - constitutional government. He was unable to acquit the Opposition of responsibilily for tho discreditable proceedings ; at Belfast after a responsible slatemau's • open incitetnents (o violence, . t THE BELFAST DISORDERS. (Roc. August 1, 9.50 p.m.) . London, August 1. A number of workmen and clerks at the shipyards havo struck as a protest ■ against the retention of a number of Roman Catholics who were returned. The Trustees of the Homo Rule Fund have contributed .£SOO to tho relief of th.j Belfast distress. At a meeting of the Nationalist members of tho House of Commons, -Mr. Redmond piesiding, the Government was summoned to secure the peaceful return of those expelled from the shipyards, and to punish the assailants and organisers of tho compaign of intimidation. Tho Order of Hibernians at Dublin announces the abandonment; of the customary parados on August 15.