Serious Danger

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 21, 13 June 1914, Page 5

Serious Danger

THE SITUATION IN IRELAND. TWO GREAT ARMIES BEYOND CONTROL. MAY LEAD TO CIVIL WAR. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, June 11. The military correspondent of the Times states that the Home Rule Bill is described as a measure for the better government of Ireland, but it is better described as a Bill Tendering all government impossible. It has had the effect of creating in Ireland, contrary to statute, two great military forces which entirely escape the control of the. King's Ministers. Neither -will receive or obey the order of the Government. The Nationalist volunteers probably number 100,000 strong, but they lack money, aims, organisation, discipline, equipment and efficiency, but do not lack men. The | existence of the Nationalist and Ulster volunteers represents a serious danger, and will probably lead .to civil war unless the Government shows better capacity for governing than it 'has recently shown.

•Mr. Asquith announced that if the Opposition desired it the amending Bill would be introduced in the House of .Lords before the Home Rule Bill is further considered. The date was not fixed. Mr. Birrel! in reply to Lord Robert tiecil, said the latest estimate of tfie nationalist volunteer force was eighty thousand. Its txistence was sufficiently explained by the Ulster army. Both were engaging the Government's attention. The validity?of the entry of rifles and ammunition to Ireland was still sub judice. So long as it remained so the proclamation would be enforced against all parties.

"YOU ARE CALLED A LIAR." EXCITEMENT IN THE HOUSE OP COMMONS. Received 12, 10.20 p.m. London, June 13. Mr. Asquith, questioned regarding Mr. IJoyd George's Criccieth speech, denied that there was any mutiny in the Army. If his colleague said there was, he must be left to interpret his own speech. Mr. Lloyd George explained that he referred to the direct incitements to mutiny, and said that if there was no mutiny, it was no fault of the Opposition. 'Earl Winterton: You are called a liar by your own leader. (Uproar).