"FLOOD OF SLANDER,"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 35, 16 June 1913, Page 5

"FLOOD OF SLANDER,"

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. UNIONIST CAMPAIGN IN SCOTLAND. [By Electric Telegraph— Copyright! [ U nited Press Ass jo a s :<■ tf • ! London, June 14. Major Archer-Shee and Messrs Redmond, Devlin and Scanlan have opened the Home Ride campaign in Scotland. MR REDMOND IN PURSUIT. (Received 9.10 a.m.) London, June 15. Mr J. E. Redmond (leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party), in starting a Home Rule campaign m Scotland, declared that whenever the enemy spread calumnies, it was the Nationalists' settled policy to follow hot-foot and dissipate the slanderers. After touring Scotland, Mr Redmond proceeds to Leeds, Norwich, and Cardiff. THE EMPIRE AGAINST CARSON. "CIVIL WAR IMPROBABLE." (Received 9.10 a.m.) London, June 10. The Hon. Walter Runciman (President of the Board of Agriculture), speaking at Bristol, said that there was no sign that fthe Ulster Protestants ran any risk V aggression, The whole Empire was against Sir Edward Carson. The Liberals stood for the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament. Civil war, if not an impossibility, was an improbability, and if the Liberals j were frightened by threats they were not fitted to retain the country's confidence. '

LETTER FROM MR CHURCHILL

,Mr Churchill wrote to the same meeting stating that far-reaching questions affecting the land and the Lords were coming into view. There were bigger things to be done than were ever yet attempted. Unionists were as boastful to-day upon the flood of slander as in 1909 against the Budget, but the general election would come quite soon enough for the reactionaries and food taxers, and when it came, at the proper time and upon good grounds, with new issues and the old cause, there would. be little doubt , but that the , Liberals would roll them over as they had often done before. OUT-OF-DATE RIFLES. (Received .9.35 a.m.) .-, London, June 15. The cases of rifles discovered at Newcastle, and which were to be forwarded to Ireland, aro old German weapons. A CAMPAIGNER AT LEEDS. (Received 9.35 a.m.) London, June 15. Sir" Edward Carson at Leeds said he believed the Premier was weakening, and was beginning to see that he cannot keep his bargain. Why, he asked, was Mr Redmond going to Scotland? The tour shows that he and his supporters, just like their opponents, must be tried not by the judgment of a coalition whitewashed Ministry, but by the people of Britain. Sir Edward Carson thought it sad and disgraceful that Irish Unionists should, owing to the apathy of the English on Home Rule, be compelled to come over and appeal to the British electors against being handed to their traditional oppressors. This was an age of consolidation, not of disintegration.