HOME RULE QUESTION.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1972, 31 January 1914, Page 5

HOME RULE QUESTION.

♦'BILL CANNOT PASS. ,, , FUNDAMENTALLY BAD IN PRESENT FORM. By Wlcgx&ib-Weia Ajsiootation—Dot jxishi London., January 2D. Mr. William O'Brien (Independent Nationalist), who recently Rallied for the stewardship of tho Chiltein Hundreds, with tlio idoa of offering Imuk self for re-election for Cork City on tho issno of a Homo Rule Conference, speaking at Cork, said: "Tins Homo link liiil cannot pass isi its present form, which is fundamentally bad. Ministers must secure the sanction of a general election for a now Biit, otherwise it wilt' be impossible to call out tho King's troops I'] onforco it."

GREAT COUNTRY HOUSES. BEING PREPARED FOR USE 'AS HOSPITALS. London, January 29. Dozens of groat : country hou-sos m Ulster aro being quietly spreparcd for uso as hospitals.' Tiioy will tbavo full cqnipnieiit. Drilling continues nightly in lrundrods of centres. All tho corps will bo leavened by Reservists.

THE PROMISED DISCLOSURE. (Kec. January 30 s 10.10 p.m.) Lendon, January SO, Mr. Birroll {Ohief Secretary lor Ireland) explains that tho olfor to Ulster indicated! in his speech on January 27 Was tho offer made in 3lr. Asquitfi's Ladybank spcscfi.

A cablegram on Wednesday stated:— Mt. Birrcll, Chief Secretary for Ireliinil., speakiTig at Bristol, dented that Ulster was to bo t.hrtist eut. Hft added: "Long lieforo civil war begins rto Government tfill tote tke opportunity to tell Hie country what they offered and what Ulster refused."