ULSTER & HOME RULE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1925, 6 December 1913, Page 5

ULSTER & HOME RULE.

. 6, :—^ 000R OPEN FOR SETTLEMENT, TILL THE LAST MOMENT, SPEECH BY SIR EDWARD GREY. By Telegrapli—Press Association—Copyritrlit (Hec. December 5, 10.5 p.m.) London, December G, . °ir Edward Grey (Secretary of State tor Foreign Affairs), speaking at- iiradiord, said that the Irish Nationalists would certainly he disappointed if the realisation of their hopes wore marred by internecinc conflict. The Liberals, also, did not desire to use force, but the abandonment of Home Rule would he worse, and would plunge Ireland back to the days of -coercion. He asked : "Wily hurry the settlement of Ulster? Home llnle will not be enforced until 1915. The Government will keep the door open for settlement by consent until the last- moment."

If, added Sir Edward Grey. tho sisrus of settlement wore loss lavonvable at the Prime Minister's Leeds speech than at tlio time of Lis Ladybank speech, tlio responsibility did not belong to Mr. Asi'iuitli. The other side had shown no sign that it was prepared to consider n settlement. "Their only tioii is," said tile speaker, "that of a settlement on Federal lines, hut that cannot he -worked out at the eleventh hour, at a moment's notice." IF CIVIL WAR- SHOULD COME. (Ree, December .5, 11.50 p.m.) London, December 5. Mr. Oliver Lockor-Lampson (Unionist member for North Huntingdon) liar, arranged with families in sixty parishes of his constituency for the accommodation of Protestant children in the event of civil war in Ulster. ITo has also raised a hundred men and rifles, and defies Mr. Augustine Rirrell (Chief Secretary for Ireland), his brother-in-law, to prosecute him.