Make Haste Slowly.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 82, 6 December 1913, Page 5

Make Haste Slowly.

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. SETTLEMENT DOOR OPEN. [By Eleotkio Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, December o. Sir Edward Grey, speaking at Bradford, said that the Nationalists certainly would be disappointed if the realisation of their hopes was marred by an internecine conflict. The Liberals also did not desire to use force, but the abandonment of Home Rule would be worse. It would plunge Ireland %ack into the days of coersion. Sir Edward asked why there should Vie a hurry for a settlement regarding Lister. Homo Rule would not be enforced until 1915, and the Government would keep the door open for settlement by consent until the last moment. If the signs of settlement were less favorable at the time of Mr Asquith's speech at Leeds than at the time of his Ladybank speech the responsibility did not belong to Mr Asquith. The other side had shown no sign that it was prepared to consider a settlement. The only suggestion is a settlement on Federal lines, but that cannot be worked out at the eleventh hour at a moment's notice. PREPARING FOR WAR. London, December 5. Mr Oliver Locker-Lampson, Unionist M.P. for North Huntingdonshire, has arranged with families in sixty parishes in his constituency to accommodate Protestant children in the event of civil war in Ulster. He has also raised a hundred men with rifles. He defies Mr A. Birrel, Chief Secretary for Ireland, who is his brother-ln-aw/ to prosecute hm. REPORTED POSTPONEMENT. (Receive. J. 25 a.m.) London, December 5. Dublin Castle is inquiring into matter of the importation of arm!?. - The Daily Mail states that the Government contemplate postpoi iag Home Rule until the autumn session, leaving only the plural noting and disestablishment.