"Deadly Enemies."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 56, 27 June 1914, Page 5

"Deadly Enemies."

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. THE DANGER OF CIVIL WAR. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, June 26. In tlio House of Commons Mr Hunt (Unionist member for Shropshire), inquired whether Mr Asquith would take special steps to prevent the arms provided by Irish-Americans from entering Ireland and increasing the danger of civil war. Mr Newman (Unionist member foi Middlesex) asked whether the Government proposed to make representation b to the United States of America on the matter.

Mr Lloyd George replied that tne Government did not propose to make representations to the United States. Mr Hunt then inquired: Are we to understand that the Government will continue in political alliance with a party whoso volunteers are armed by deadly enemies of this country?" Mr Lynch desired to know if the Ministry had ascertained how much American money had already come to Ireland to abet civil war through the agency of American heiresses. The questions were not answered.

A PESSIMISTIC FEELING. London, July 26. The feeling in Ireland regarding the prospects of the amending Bill are frankly pessimistic. The Nationalists dislike the apologetic tone created in the speech. Ulstermen are angry and defiant. The increasing difficulties of Mr Asquith's position supoprt the rumors of an early election. Mr Redmond's appeal to the IrishAmericans has heen almost unnoticed in the United States Press, but the Irish Committee of New York cabled £IOOO and promise to supply all the money required.

AFTER A DIVISION. [Unitbd Pbubb Aubociation.] After a division, and as the members were loaving the House, the Nationalists taunted the Q'Brienites. A heated altercation took place, and blows were threatened, when Mr, William Redmond intervened and restored peace. , \, The Unionist leaders have drafted their amendments to the amending Bill. It is uiiderstood that these aim at abolishing the time limit and extending the projected area of exclusion. Lord Willoughby De Boke gave notice to move the rejection of the Bill, hut the motion did not receive official sanction.

ax oOa OPINIONS. • I London, July 26. Sir Edward Carson, in the magazine ''Our Flag," said he wished he could support the viow that the amending Bill showed any reasonable desire pi the Government to, avert disaster. On the contrary, it demonstrated that : no progress has been made since March. It was ludicrous to provide that Ulster must accept any administration that the Lprd^Ljeutenant—who ■ would bo subject to the advice of the Dublin Ministers—desires to set up. The whole thing revealed a policy of drift, and it looked as if there would be no effort of statesmanship to solve the problem. Sir Edward Carson appeals to sympathisers to give Ulster active and determined support in the struggle.' Lord Milner, speaking at the Constitutional Club, said that whether the present attempt to avert disaster succeeded or failed depended on whether the Government emancipated itself at the eleventh hour from the vassalage of the Nationalist Party. Previous overtures had been futile because the Government entered into them with hands tied. He was prepared to approach the amending Bill with a desire to tide over the interval of the greatest danger, for he had no right to throw away the last poor chance >f saving the country from a great calamity.

Mr William O'Brien, in a letter to the newspapers, says that a. conference at this stage would be a desperate remedy, but it provided the only escape from a desperate calamity. Let the House of Lords propose an All-Party Convention, as Sir Edward Grey has suggested, and adjourn the Homo Rule and amending Bills for three months, pending the Convention's report. But the Convention should proceed as an exclusively Irish conference.