RULE FOR IRELAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 52, 1 November 1913, Page 4

RULE FOR IRELAND.

M D iBASTRQ l/S‘ SiT U A TlO N.

[ By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] 1 imes—Sydney; jSun Special Cables. London, October 31.

; The Times, commenting’on Mr Bonar Law’s speech at Walkend. says the Government has brought the United Kingdom to the verge of internal conflict. It is for the Government to say how it proposes to deal with a situ* ation which is unparalleled and whidi is fraught with disaster. Whilst admitting, acknowledging, and temporising, it makes no definite sign. Meanwhile, the sands are running out of the hour-glass of destiny.

/‘SHUT OFF STEAM.” (Received 8 a.m.) London, October 31, Ulstermen greatly approve Mr Bonar Law’s demand for a general election. The Unionists in southern Ireland prefer a settlement fl>y consent. The Nationalists are displeased at the tendency of affairs, seeing plainly that the Government cannot much longer persist in Mr Redmond’s policy of full steam ahead. ULSTER’S RIGHTS. [United Tunas Association.! London, October 31. Air Austen Chamberlain, speaking at the United Empire Club, said that they couldn’t refuse Ulster the same right as the self-governing Dominions claimed, to rule over her own “What right,” he said, “have we to cast Ulster nut of the union, subject to an authority which is abhorrent to them ?”