HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.
THE TORCH OK CIVIL WAR. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press iAssociation.] Loudon, August 9. In dealing with a statement by the Earl of Clonmel that a little shrapnel would sono drive the Ulster crowd hack, the Earl of Clamvilliam, speaking at Ballynahinch, said: “The first shot fired here by order of his Majesty’s Government against the loyal men and women of Ulster may light the torch of civil war, which will not he easily quenched. Civil war is very contagious. You cannot have civil wai in Ulster without civil war in England. Those responsible will he very ill-advis-ed if they consider that Ulster’s opposition can be dealt with in this manner. If civil war results, the G rernment and its supporters w. 1 oe swept into an abyss of social and po itical infamy for committing an <> which is the most atrocious conceivable, and which will stink in th toils of generations to come.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 82, 11 August 1913, Page 6
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158HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 82, 11 August 1913, Page 6
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