Home Rule.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 62, 4 July 1914, Page 5

Home Rule.

THE FUTURE OF IRELAND. DEBATE IN THE LORDS. (By Eleotbio Telegbaph —Cgpybight) [United Phess -Association.] London, July 3. In the House of Lords, Lord Londonderry asked if the Government were absolutely sincere. Was Mr Asquith prepared to support Lord Crewe and tell Mr Redmond that he will insist on amendments of a far-reaching character being accepted? Unless the Commons were to consider the Lords' amendments the proceedings would be a farce.

Lord Wimborne replied on behalf of the Government. He asked the Opposition not to put forward the maximum, but the minimum, which would satisfy Ulster. Lord Dunraven urged the Government to drop both Bills and call a convention of Irishmen to decide the future of Ireland.

Lord Islington said Ulster must be allowed to come in in her own. time and under her own conditions, but with armed Catholics facing armed jProtestants exclusion alone would avert a conflict. s

Lord Halsbury, considering it urgent and necessary to do something to avoid civil war, supported the second reading of the amending Bill. The debate was adjourned till Monday.

PETITION FROM THE CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA.

Sydney, July 3

The Archbishop, Dean, Archdeacons and clergymen of the archdiocese of .Sydney have signed a petition protesting against the proposed coercion of Ulster. |