Hearing the End.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 18, 13 May 1914, Page 5

Hearing the End.

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. A NATIONALIST APPEAL. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyrighij Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, May 12. , Freeman's Journal, the Irish Nationalist organ, publishes an appeal to the Irish Unionists to accept the Home Rule Bill, and suggests that after the Bill becomes law, Mr Redmond and Sir Edward Carson should try to settle their outstanding differences. The Nationalists, says the paper, are prepared to go almost any distance to meet the Unionists. PETITION TO THE KING. XTTnitfd Press Association.] The Irish Unionist Alliance has petitioned the King, asking that the Home Rale Bill be submitted to the judgment of the people. MORE GUN-RUNNING. (Received 8.50 a.m.) London, May 12.

The "Belfast Echo" asserts that a steamer by evading the destroyers, in the north-east of Ulster, landed'twenty machines, volunteers conveying them inland. MR ASQUITH IN THE HOUSE. . AN AMENDED BILL. (Received 11.15 a.m.) London, May 12. Mr Asquith, in moving resolutions cabled on Bth inst, said it was futile to spend time on suggestions at a stage when, the House of Lords was going to reject the Bill. The Government would introduce a Bill amending the Home Rule Bill, hoping that it would be passed by agreement, and the Bills would become law practically simultaneously. Mr Gladstone M.P., for Kilmarnock, complained that the Government was not carrying out the spirit and intention of the Parliament Act. j