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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 48, 17 July 1914, Page 5

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" THE GOVERNMENT S EXTREMITY. A ROLNDI.V MT CIRCULAR. i THE UMuXISTS' CRITICISM. \y Cable.—l're-> Association.—Copyrig.it ( Received 10, 10 p.m. London, July lti. Mr. P. Illingv froth, Libeial Wlilp, Ims lonfldentially circularised the Libeni Biembera, stating that the fate of the Bills under the Parliament Act was .it |take. Any diminution of the majority held in May would encourage the Opposition. The circular adds: "The •onstituencies demand that no Liberal |hould do anything, by speech or by §ctio% at this supreme moment, which rill weaken the Premier when everything is at stake for which generations gf Liberals have labored." Many Liberals have protested against Jhe circular, on the pround of its speakbig for the minority. . Unionists critics' comment on the circular is that it exhibits the anxiety, almost to distress, wherewith she Government is approaching the crisis pf its fortunes. AN AMAZING STATEMENT. ; GOVERNMENT TO ABANDON > AMENDING BILL. London, July 15. One hundred and fifty thousand rounds |f ammunition, consigned to Belfast, Jffere seized at Stockton-on-Tees. Mr. Asquith announced that he proposed to put down the Amending Bill provisionally for Monday. . The Pall Mall Gazette is responsible lor the amazing statement that the GovKment intends to abandon the amendBill, withdraw the troops fro:n Ulster, and call on the Provisional Govfrnment to keep order and collect the (axes and remit them to Whitehall, thence to lie disbursed proportionally to {lister and Dublin. ' BELFAST PLACES NO FAITH IN ; CONFERENCE. ; A BELFAST BOYCOTT. MERCHANT SHIPS ARMING. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 16, 5.25 p.m. ' London, July 16. The opinion in Belfast is that nothing Fill result from the conference, which is (he reason for Sir Edward Carson's sudden call to London. Traders at Carrick-on-Shannon decided to boycott Belfast merchants if Ulster persists in its opposition to Ilome Biile. Nationalist leaders have privately exP r essed to the Government their determination not to agree to any further Concessions. In the House of Commons, Mr. Churchill said that forty corn and mcat-carrv-ing merchantmen had been armed for defensive purpo.-es. far which the Admiralty was not paving. The Admiralty proposed to arm ne bhantmcn for bringing vital food applies. A word of warning was r.< «•■>- •an to prevent undue alarm. MR. REDMOND PLACES HIS LIMIT. Received 16, 11.15 p.m. ' London. Jhly 16. It is understood that communications liave parsed between 'Mr. Asquith and Mr. Redmond. The latter is prepared Jo let each county in Ulster decide by Tote whether it will be excluded, but this" is the extreme limit of confession.