Home Rule Crisis

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 173, 21 January 1914, Page 5

Home Rule Crisis

ELECTORS WILL NOT BE CONSULTED ULSTERITES WILL '•EIGHT IT OUT." HYSTERICAL UTTERANCES. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright Received 20, 10.35 p.m. London, January 20. Lord Londonderry, at a demonstration at Belfast, said there was little hope of the electors being consulted over Home Rule. They had a hundred thousand men drilled. If these were shot down by British soldiers, the whole Empire would be thrilled with horror. Sir Edward Carson, in an emotional speech, said conversations 'were useless unless Ulster's rights were, preserved under the Imperial Parliament. He prayed to God to give them men. H their homes were rendered fatherless, it would he with the old flag Hying, and their people cheering the King. They accepted Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's advice to "fight it out." The demonstration concluded by three thousand singing the hymn. "God OutHelp in Ages Past." A PRELATE'S VIEWS. REDMOND'S PREDICTIONS. London, January 19. In urging the necessity for patience and emphasising the example of the two gloat Presbyterian churches in search after reunion, the Archbishop of York, ; in. a sermon, referred to Home Rule. The ; samia, he said, were running out, and possibly civil war was drawing near. Only' a resolute detcrmiimlion fo seek ■ pcanc and ensure it could prevent a calamity. No settlement was possible unless it found room for the two great principles of nationality on Hie one j hand and union in a wider nation on the ) other. •Mr. William Redmond, M.l',, in a speech at Bathurst, referring to Air. I Bonar Law's statement that the Union- ! ists were, pledged to support lister in ' a civil war, predicted that though there I might he some turbulence and rioting. .J as was seen in the past, the people of ' Ulster would in Uie end set lie down to j Home Rule. The Liberal Parly was willing to make tiny reasonable concessions, but neither Mr. Asquith nor the Leader of the Nationalist Parly would allow themselves to be intimidated by threat. War Office enquiries among Belfast carriers for the first use of horses in the event of war has lad to rumors Unit the Government ainiKl rft 'hampering Ulster's resistance- It is semi-ollicialiy slated that the enquiries are norma! and not confined to Ireland. Nevertheless owners stipulate (hat (heir horses must not be used against 1.'1.-ler.