HOME RULE QUESTION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1970, 29 January 1914, Page 5

HOME RULE QUESTION.

ULSTER NOT TO BE THRUST, OUT,

MR BIRRELL PROMISES SOME DISCLOSURES. By OVjleßTMli—W-ero Aawolatlon-Copyrlstl London, January 27. Mr. Birrcll, Chief Secretary for Ireland, speaking at Bristol, denied that Ulstor was to bo thrust out. He added: "Lone before civil war begins tho Government will take the opportunity to tell the country what they offered and what Ulster refused." A MAN" OF PEACE. SIR E. CARSON'S DESCRIPTION OF HIMSELF. London, January 27.Sir Edward Carson, in a speech at Lincoln, said: "If Mr. Redmond wants a genuine extension of real local government in Ireland, I will join him. If ho wants tho removal of any abuses in tho.Government of Ireland Bill, and. social or economic reforms, or a remedy for injustices in social and religious circles, I will help.. I am a man of peace, but not of peace at any price.

SITUATION DESPERATE.

HOUSE WILL BE FACED WITH A NATIONAL CRISIS. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. London, January 27. Referring to Mr. John Redmond'B SDeech at Waterford, in which the Nationalist leader said that threats of civil war would not intimidate Mr. Asouith, the Irish correspondent of "The Times" remarks: "If Mr. Redmond's recent speech at Waterford represents the Government's views, v the situation in Ulster lis not merely dangerous, hut desperate. The House of Contnloris will be confronted a fortnight hence with a national crisis, tho -gravity of which cannot bo exaggerated."