IRISH HOME RULE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 36, 7 February 1912, Page 5

IRISH HOME RULE.

TROOPS TO LINE THE 'STREETS OF BELFAST. STATEMENT BY MR DILLON. London, February 8. It is officially stated that 3500 trodps will line the streets to Celtic Park.

Rev. Sylvester Horne, in an introduction to Jeremiah MacVeagh’s pamphlet on “Home Rule or Home Rule?” says the British Non-conformists cannot resist the Irish Government unless they are prepared to repudiate self-reliance and self-control, which is the secret of the free churches’ strength and prosperity. The Grand Orange Lodge at Belfast requested the brethren not to interfere with the National meeting at Celtic Park.

Mr Dillon, speaking at Rathmins, said he was convinced it was possible to produce a Home Rule Bill acceptable to the Nationalists and to the bulk of the British people. The Ulstermen’s tactics havp greatly served the Home Rule cause in Britain.

The Times asks Mr Winston Churchill if he needs 4000 troops to enable him to speak in Belfast, what force would be required tq coerce Ulster to submit to Home Rule?