CONSCRIPTION AND HOME RULE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 178, 17 April 1918, Page 5

CONSCRIPTION AND HOME RULE

THE IRISH CONTROVERSY COMMONS DEBATE NOT TO BE EXTENDED (Rcc. April 16, 8 p.m.) London, April 15. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law rofused a Nationalist request for additional days for tbe of the application of compulsion to Ireland. Sir Edward Carson strongly criticised the machinery of the Man-Power Bill as it applied to Ireland. While strongly in favour of conscription in Ireland, ho asked: "How are you going-to apply it?"—whether they were going to establish military tribunals or local tribunals similar to those in England. The, Government fiocmed ashamed of tho measure. He gravely disl rusted the Government's intention really to put the Bill into force. He urged the Government to tell Ireland everything. At the present moment the Government was playing with tho Ulstcrmcn and the Nationalists alike. Mr. Devlin declared that the Government was in a state of panic, and in order to cover its own misdeeds was raising tho anti-Irish cry to create civil war in Ireland. , Sir George Cavo warmly- -'.repudiated Mr. Devlin's suggestion. The Government's only purpose was to call upon the manhood of the whole country to participate in the war, and was nsTting Irishmen to make the same sacrifices as Englishmen and Scotchmen were making.. The Government intended that the Act should be applied to Ireland in similar fashion as it applied to England. Ho announced that in view of the. importance of the continuance of religious ministrations, and the fact that the calling up of ministers would not yield much military man-power, (he Government wB3 willing to continue their exemption.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LABOUR ANdIhTiRISH ISSUE (Rec. April Iβ, 8 p.m.)i London, April 15. Tho Labour members of tho Government will meet Mr. Lloyd George tonight to discuss the position of Labour in regard to Home Rule. The' Parliamentary Labour Party considers that a Home Rule Bill on the lines of the Irish Convention, with adequate safeguards for Ulster, should'precede Irish conscription. It is believed that the meeting with Mr. Lloyd George will clarify the position and remove .any antagonism by the Labour Party on this question.—Aus.-N,2. Cable Assn. WHAT IRELAND HAS RECRUITED.. (l!ec. April IS, 3.5 p.m.) London, April 15. In the House of Commons Sir Auckland Gedtles stated that Ulster had contributed over fifty-eight thousand, and tho rest of Ireland over sixty-five thousand recruits.—Heu tor. IRISH OPINION. Cardinal Logue, speaking at Duncannon, said that proposals, vitally affecting all sections in Ireland were being hurried through the British Parliament. It was unseemly to have the Government making the gravest blunder, which would lead to the utmost disorder and'ehaos, and would be mot by etrenuous passive resistance. Cardinal Logue deprecated organised physical resistance.-