“Bill Must Pass."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 93, 11 April 1914, Page 5

“Bill Must Pass."

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

THE NEW ADJUTANT-GENERAL. [By Electric Telegraph — Copyright] [United Press Absociatmin. ; London, April 9. Lieut.-General Sir Henry Sclater succeeds Lieut.-General Sir J. A. Ewart as Adjutant-General of tho Forces. The police seized many thousands of cartridges on theysteamer Anglis at Kingston, consigned to the south of Ireland. Mr John Burns, speaking at Soutn Shields, said that many Jeremiahs who predicted death, damnation ami disaster to trade a decade ago if tariff reform were not adopted, were non 1 saying the same thing of Ireland if Home Rule were granted. Notwithstanding their resistance, tho Bill, plus concessions, would be passed, but if they were not careful it would be without concessions. Tho Army would not mutiny. It was calm and dignified, but tho Tories were playing for henson, Tho War Office was not; the chapel of ease to tho Canton Club. It must in the last resort be used in maintaining the supremacy of the State against all contending sections. Optional obedience was impassible.

COLONEL KFELY EXPLAINS. London, April 10. Colonel Seely, addressing ins constituents at Long Eaton,, Derby si. ire, said the Conservative papers went n.ad and tried to mke the country and the Army think that a great plot was being engineered to overwhelm Ulster and shoot down enough people in older to make the others conform to the Government’s will. The Government had never conceived such a rucked thing. There was a great Liberal principle that the Army must never bo used except to support the civil power and to enable the civil power to exercise its duty. “When the Ulster crisis passes, there will remain the question of how far the Government is entitled to use force to repress political opposition. If I had to stand alone, I would say that under no circumstances and under no provocation shall we over depart from that sound rule of liberty that the Army must" only he used in the last resort, and then only to the extent required to protect the lives of citizens. I told General Gough this, and explained that the Army was bound to obey lawful orders, but as the Army had got into their heads that the Government was contemplating unlawful action, I told him in good set terms that this was not so. General Gough then said ho would obey all lawful commands, and the interview ended.”

“Regarding the document,” Colonel Seely said, “it was quite impossible for my colleagues to write what I said, as the document was incomplete. I added the phrases without the remotest idea that 1 was dealing unfaithfully with my colleagues. The situation became intolerable when the document was claimed as a trophy. All the wild stories about the King intervening were untrue. The King never knew about General Gough’s document until the day after.”