HOME RULE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1932, 15 December 1913, Page 5

HOME RULE.

AN EXCHANGE OP VIEW!§; PARTY LEADERS MEET^ji| ARMS SEIZED IN BELFAST^ ORANGE MANIFESTO. ;;'tj;j By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (Itec. December 14, 5.5 p.m.}.. London, December 13. There are rumours that an exchange of views on the Ulster question has taken place between tho party leaders. The rumour is based on the fact that Mr. Lloyd-George, Mr. Austen Chamberlain,' Sir John Simon, and Mr. F. E. Smith dined together ami discussed the situation, and that the Prime Minister and Mr. Bonar Law, Leader of tho Opposition, were acquainted with tho results. Mr. Johu Redmond, Leader of the Nationalist party, in a communication to the Press in reply to Mr. Balfour's pamphlet, says Mr. Balfour's decision to do nothing' with regard to Home Rule follows on his twice recorded decision in the House of Commons in favour of the declaration of a section to offer armed resistance. Mr. Balfour's dialectics will not touch realities in the event of four-fifths of tho Irish people deciding to assume arms in order to claim a settlement which tho representative Houso has offered. Tho "Daily Telegraph" states that tho Disestablishment Bill will be taken before tho Home Rulo Bill during the coming session. A CALL TO AHMS. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London,-December 12. Tho Orange Grand Lodge of Ireland lias issued a manifesto urging its brethren to complete preparations for tho defence of their liberties, so as to bo able to offer resistance to Homo Rule, which could only bo overcome by a.!', overwhelming foreo persistently ■' applied. MAGAZINE RIFLES SEIZED. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Rcc. December 15, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 13. Tho Belfast Customs have seized 250 magazino rifles of the latest type' consigned to a Belfast gunsmith. The consignees are demanding tho release of the guiis owiiig to their having been ordered before tho proclamation against importing arms.