Home Rule

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 40, 8 July 1914, Page 5

Home Rule

THE AMENDING BILL. VIEWS OF AMERICAN By Cable —Press Association —Copyright London, July (i. The amending- Bill passed the second reading in the House of Lords by 273 votes to 10.

London, July G. Mr. Redmond has received a resolution from the New York committee declaring that they arc determined to arm t\e Nationalist Volunteers, otherwise the •ad story of Grattan's Volunteers would fa' repeated. The resolution insists on llr. Redmond forcing the Government to withdraw the arms proclamation or relinquishing control of the volunteers. ATTITUDE OK ANGLICAN BISHOPS. Sidney, July 7. Tiie Bishops of Newcastle and Bath■Tnt opposed the Anglican leaders' Hon-j Rule petition. WAR MUNITIONS FOR ULSTER. DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

Received 7. 9.50 p.m. London, .July 7. Ulster volunteer leaders landed two hundred thousand cartridges at Bangor. A sergeant of the Bedfordshire Regiment has been arrested for instructing the National Volunteers in revolver practice. Ten "Die-hards" voted for Lord Willoughby de Broke's motion for the rejection of the amending Bill. Lord Roberts said the present cri?i3 •fleeted the very roots of national >\- (itence. Any attempt to use the military to coerce Ulster would break and Win the Army. He urged, in tlie cause of patriotism, that all should drop party Bifferencea and seek a national solution order to avert an inexpressible disaster to the Army and nation.

Lord Curzon favored a convention, but said that time was too precious, anil Vie tension too acute to allow of that Course, and one could not advocate the.se B lotions when one could' hear the tramp aimed men. The amending Sill must fill the gap till a permanent settlement could be devised.

'Lend Crewe said that if dropping Some Bule and scrapping the Government policy were to be the preliminary to a conference or convention for permanent settlement, such a proposal Mould not be entertained. He asked the Opposition whether, if the total exclupion of Ulster were included in the Bill, pould they give a guarantee against Civil conflict! He was not ashamed to •ay that he heartily dreaded the idea of civil conflict.