HOME RULE BILL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1778, 17 June 1913, Page 5

HOME RULE BILL.

RIVAL CAMPAIGNERS.

THE APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY. FOLLOWING-UP TACTICS. MR. CHURCHILL'S BOAST. By Tolcgra-Dh-Preis ABSoclltton-CoDyrlßht London, June 15. Mr. Walter Runciman, President of tho Board of Agriculture, speaking at Bristol, said there was 110 sign that Ulster Protestants ran any risk of aggression. The whole of the Empiro was against Sir Edward Carson. The Liberals stood for the supremacy of tho Imperial Parliament. Civil war, if not an impossibility, was an improbability, and if the Liberals were to bo frightened by threats they would be unfitted to retain the country's confidence. Mr. Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty) wroto to tho same meeting, stating that far-reaching questions affecting the land and the House of Ixirds were coming info view. There were bigger things to be done than had ever been, attempted. The Unionists wero as boastful to-day upon a flood of slander as in 1909 against tho Budget, but the General Election would come quite soon enough for tho reactionaries and food-taxera, and when it came, at tho proper time, and upon good ground, with new issues and an old cause, there was little doubt that tho Liberals would roll them over as often as they had done before. AsWHITE-WASHEO MINISTRY. IS MR. ASQUITH WEAKENING? London, June 15. Sir Edward Carson, speaking at Leeds, said he believed the Premier was weakening; he was beginning to see that he could not keep his bargain with the Nationalists. Why was Mr. Redmond going to Scotland? His tour showed that he and his supporters were just liko their opponents; they must be tried not by judgment of the coalition with a white-, washed Ministry, but by tho people of Britain. i

Sir Edward thought it 6ad and disgraceful that Irish Unionists should, owing to the apathy of the English on the subject of Homo Rule, be compelled to come over and appeal to the British electors against being handed over g to their traditional oppressors. This was an ago of consolidation, not disintegration.

MR, REDMOND PURSUES THE ENEMY'S "CALUMNIES." , , London, June 15. Mr. Redmond, in starting his Home Rule tour, declared that whenever the enemy spread calumnies it was the Nationalists' settled policy to follow hotfoot, and dissipate tho slanders. After'touring Scotland, he and his colleagues intend proceeding to Leeds, Norwich, and Cardiff. MADE IN GERMANY. London, June 15. The casos of rifles seized at Newcastle, and whioh 'were to have.been forwarded to Ireland,- aro old German weapons. NATIONALIST LEADER IN GLASGOW' (Rec. June 17, 0.80 a.m.) London, June 16. , The preparations to welcome Mr. Redmond and his party at Glasgow to-day include a torchlight procession of 20,000 Liberals and University students.