NATIONALIST ULSTER AGREES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2806, 26 June 1916, Page 5

NATIONALIST ULSTER AGREES

IRISH SETTLEMENT REACHED BY 475 VOTES TO 265 MR, REDMOND'S ULTIMATUM By Telegraph-Press Aasooltttion-Copjright (Roc. June 25, 5.5 p.m.) London, June 21 Tlie "Ulster Nationalist Conference sat for six hours, and voted county by county. It is understood that Mr. John Bedmond (the Nationalist leader) made a powerful appeal, in which lie declared that it the conference refused Mr. Lloyd George's proposals, ho would not again appear on tho publio platform as leader of the Irish Party; This ultimatum luade a deep impression. Armagh -voted against and Antrim for tho Thereafter the .voting for acceptance steadily increased. later. ■ Official—Tho .conference, by 475 votes to 2G5, adopted Mr,.Lloyd George's proposals. WARNING BY UNIONIST PEERS (Rec. Juno 25, 5.5 p.m.) London, June 24. Lord Balfour of Burleigh, tho Karl of Cromer, Lord Halsbury, Viscount Midleton,' and the Marquis of Salisbury, in a joint letter to the Press, urge that the {rave position in Ireland is being rendered more critical by tho negotiations aow in progress. The go-as-you-please system in Itisli government had injured Ireland's credit, and law, and there was Bvon good reason to believe that it had >pened the country to German influence, was more rampant than it hart been for fifty years. The signatories declare: "Tho Government should not give up its machinery in the middle of a vital struggle. Wo believe that if an election were; held in Ireland, Mr. Redmond could not maintain his following, or govern in. ffie face of the Sinn Fain and other influences. These proposals are fraught with infinite danger to the Empire and to onr Allies.".