HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 54, 9 July 1913, Page 6

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

ARMED ULSTERMEN

[By, Electric Telegraph—Copyright [Sydney Sun Special Cable.] London, July 8.

At the first parade of two thousam Ulstermen volunteers at Belfast th< volunteers pledged themselves to g< anywhere in Ireland that their ser vices: were required, in the event of the passage of the Home Rule Bill.

SOME OE THE SPEECHES

THE GOVERNMENT'S PLEDGE

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright [United Press .Association.] (Received 8.5 a.m.) London, July 8.

Mr Bonar Law (Leader of the Opposition) said he thought interest in Home Rule in the House of Common; was dead owing to the Parliament Act. The question was alive in the country, where forces were gathering to destroy the machinery which tin Government had so carefully constructed. He invited the Government to consider the attitude in north-east Ulster, and urged them to consider the calamitous course they were pursuing. Mr Asquith said that if the Opposi tion could demonstrate the real danger of persecution in Ulster they would command the Government's sympathy and support, but he did not believe there was any such danger. Neither did he believe it would be necessary to apply coercion in Ulster. The Right Hon. Mr J. Campbell emphasised Ulster's determination to resist'Home Rule. He recalled Mr Bin-ell's speech at Bristol wherein he said that the King's soldiers would not be employed to mow down peaceful Protestants in Belfast. He asked whether Mr Asquith assented to the statement. The Premier nodded assent. Sir Rufus Isaacs said the Government was pledged to carry Home Rule, and they would never retrace their steps whatever was the result. IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. (Received 11.5 a.m.) London, July 8. The Home Rule Bill ( .was read a first time in the House.of Lords.