Ulster Excluded

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 195, 16 February 1914, Page 5

Ulster Excluded

FOR A FIXED TERM. A SETTLEMENT RUMORED. IV Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 1(5, 12.5 a.m. London, February 15. Tim "News of the World" authority ively states that a settlement of the I Ister trouble is assured on the basiß of the exclusion of the four north-easc-erii counties for a fixed term, with thereafter the option to enter tne Irish Parliament, A SUBMERGED TUBE. BETWEEN SCOTLAND AND. ] IRELAND. i Received 14, 7 p.m. Times-Sydney Sun Special Cables. New York, February 14. A Chicago engineer has planned a •übmerged tube railway between Scotland and Ireland, believing commercial betterment would prove a remedy for the Irish unrest. The tube would lie in tjuict water and be free from the •fleets of the wind and waves. Its bsilding, the inventor says, could be done In lengths, towed out, and sunS ami fixed. DISCUSSION IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. ULSTER AND THE ARMY. London, February 13. In the House of Lords, Lord London4erry incidentally quoted Lord Wolscle.v's letter to the Duke of Cambridge in 18!)3, stating that if the troops were lnought into conflict with the Ulster loyalists'it would shake the foundations j

or the army. Lord Roberts followed, and in halfminute's speech endorsed Lord Wolscley's contentions. He declared that it was unthinkable that the British army should be called to fight the Ulster volunteers. It would be the army's ruin. Lord Curzon pointed out that the Government now confessed that the Home Rule Bill, in its present form, eeuld not be placed on the Statute Book.