The Irish Crisis

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 268, 11 April 1914, Page 5

The Irish Crisis

ARMY COUNCIL CHANGES. SEIZDRE OF ARMS IX IRELAND. SPEECH BY MR. JOHN BURNS. THE BILL MUST PASS. 'By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 9, 0.55 p.m. "London, April 9. Lieut.-General Sir Henry Selatcr suc->-ceeds Lieut-General Sir J. A. Ewart as Adjutant-General of the Forces. The police seized many thousands of cartridges on the steamer 'Anglis at Kingston, consigned to the south of Ire'lana. Mr. John Barns, speaking at South Shields, said that many Jeremiahs who predicted death, damnation and disaster to trade a decade ago if tariff reform were ■tot adopted, were now saying the same thing of Ireland if Home Rule were granted. Notwithstanding their resistance, the BUI, pins concessions, would be passed, bat it they were not careful it would Kb without concessions. The Army Would not mutiny. It was calm and f ignified, but the Tories were playing - lor treason. The War Office was not the chapel of ease to the Carlton Club. (t most in the last resort be used in maintaining the snpremacy of the State against all contending sections. Opf tkraal obedience was impossible. ; WHAT COLONEL SEELY DID. ; TOLD BY HIMSELF. "CONSERVATIVE PAPERS WENT MAD." ' THE ARMY AS A LAST RESORT. jjsr Received 11 ajn. London, April 10. ; Colonel Seely, addressing his constitu* •tats at Long Eaton, Derbyshire, said the 'Conservative papers went mad and tried , to make the country and the Army think that a great plot was being engineered to overwhelm Ulster and shoot down enough people in order to make f&e others conform to the Government's urill. The Government had never con--cehred sneh a wicked thing. There was * great Liberal-principle that the Army ■nut never he used except to support Hie civil power and'to enable the civil ■power to exercise its duty. "When the Ulster erisis passes, there/will remain ibe question of how far.the Government is 'entitled to use force to Tepress political opposition. If I had to stand *Jone, I would say that under no circumstances and under no provocation shall we ever depart from that sound rule of liberty that the Army must only be used in the last resort, and then only to the extent required to protect the lives of citizens. I told General Gough this, and explained that the Army was bound to obey lawful orders, but as the Army had got into their heads that the Government was contemplating unlawful action, I told him in good set terms that this was not so. General <Gough then said he would obey all lawful commands, and the interview ended." "Regarding the document," Colonel *: 'Seely said, "it was quite impossible for my colleagues to write what I said, a 9 •the document was incomplete. I added the phrases without the remotest idea that I was dealing unfaithfully with my colleagues. The situation became intolerable when the document was claimed as a trophy. All the wild 'stories about the King intervening were untrue. The King never knew about General • Cough's document until the day after."

MR. ASQUITH'S RE-ELECTION. i ' . London, April 8. _JP* Mr. Asquith, who had to seek re\f dectioa on taking over the position of Secretary for War from Colonel Seely, has been re-elected unopposed for the Bast Fife seat. RIOTING IN AMERICA. New York, April 8. lift Pittsburg .Patsy Brannigan, a Boted pugilist, was badly injured in a riot between Home Rulers and antiHome Rulers, and others were wound- • «d. The police reserves were called out. Kie disturbance raged throughout the low class district for hours, despite wholesale arrests and baton charges.