MR. ASQUITH ASKS FOR TIME.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2007, 14 March 1914, Page 5

MR. ASQUITH ASKS FOR TIME.

ANOTHER STATEMENT PENDING, Br ?&<HztB,xHL-tieSe ApsooiaUon-Cossn'lalfct tOfidon, March 12. Mr. As-quitli, tho Pritea Minister, speaking hi the House of Ccmnwns, as.k«d members to postpone ,a mitiiber of questions us to details regarding tho Ulster ptopDsals. Ho premis'cd to make a genefal statemeut en tho subject on Jlamlay ilaxt. Uondon, Ma«h I*l. Mr, Joseph phnmbc-rlain hq.s tclograpbed from South Franco that {.lift Irish covenant will be largely signed. "At this critical periocl of our history," he says, "all should do their part,' ? PRIME MINISTER'S CRITICS. (Ree. Jloreh 13, 9. ( 23 p.m.) London, Mardi 13. The "Tablet" (Roman Catholic) says that .Ireland has ii.o 1150 for a coerced B-n<l coiiguered Ulste, which would be eotnc an Irish oditicwi of Alsace-Lorraine, It would be impossible to colitret events at tho cud of tho six-year ihnft Hmit, and the Nationalists sboulii.; therefore, make a virtue of necessity. . Mr. T. P. O'Connor (Nationalist) declares that Ireland -ivO.l never consent to the perpetual cxclirsion of IlktiU', afttl «ooncr i than lose the Bill will go i«to the wildfliriioss for another generation. TliG idea of. a temporary exclusion is Gfl'iiwalent, ho says, to the Bill's provl- . sions tugftrduig tie services resefrefl to ■ tjio Imperial GovOifnmoßt. Tho excluded cormticss must automatically came ; under the jnria&tion of the mv. . Par-lia-ment after the Iransition jjenod. , Mi\ AustDii. Oisambcflain {Unionist), : speaking at W<?,st. Birmingham, g»v,o Mr. Asquitli erecfit for ..his aijsiety to prevent calamities, hut 110 eould not ex- ■ pect tllster to disband hor oi-aanisatjon : and forsake the method by wliipb, alone slio Imtl been abie t.p seciire.a heariug. ■ If tlie scheme passed iiito law, exotal'siob would hn tho tnain issue at future r elections. Jsver.y dish would be an Irish stew, and scalding hot at that.