Home Rule.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 75, 19 March 1914, Page 5

Home Rule.

MEET FORGE WITH FORCE.

MR REDMOND ON PARTITION.

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' United Press Association, i London, March 18

Mr Redmond, presided at the Nationalists’ St. Patrick’s Hay banquet at the Hotel Cecil. In the course of his speech he said that any permanent partition of Ireland would be an outrage on. nature and history to which the Irish leaders would never acquiesce, but in the absence of a political earthquake, Home Rule would lie the law of the land, probably in its present form. The Government’s efforts at conciliation had been a failure. Extremists on both sides had deliberately misrepresented the Government’s efforts. The automatic ending of any period of exclusion was for the Nationalists an immutable principle, and our latest word is. if force is interposed, it will be met with force.”'."'

AMENDMENT TO BONAR LAW’S.

London, March 18

Mr A. McAllum Scott has given notice of an amendment to Mr Bonar Law’s motion. He "regretted the Opposition’s refusal to state whether they wore prepared to accept the Government’s suggestion as a basis of settlement.