HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 31, 11 June 1913, Page 2

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

“DRIVING TOWARDS A GREAT NATIONAL DISASTER.” MR BALFOUR’S OPINIONS. London, June 10. Mr Asquith is disappointed that the Opposition made no efforts to reach accommodation, seeing that the Bill must pass into law. He gave an elaborate explanation of the sugestion that the stage which replaces committee amendments would be carried by the accompanying Bill in the House of Lords though they did not enter into its structure. An Opposition member interjected “it's a farce.” Mr Asquith (heatedly): “Not unless you make it so.” Mr Balfour said that Britain was able to crush Ulster’s resistence if her power were exercised ruthlesly. Though Britains’s political imagination was sluggish, it would be aroused when troops wsre sent to Ulster. The Government was driving towards a great national disaster. “If Ulster were Albania,” ho said, “you would not treat her so.” Mr O'Brien blamed the Ministers and Nationalists for not making a real bid for settlement by agreement. Mr Dillon said that all the talk of civil war in Ireland was bluff.