MR, ASQUITH HITS OUT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 58, 29 July 1914, Page 5

MR, ASQUITH HITS OUT.

A WARNING TO THE OPPOSITION " IP IT CAME TO A TIJST OP POWK ({.■•• EXCITED CROWDS IX DUBLIX. Received 29, 12.40 a.m. London, July 28. Mr. Asqnitb concluded: -"flu- difficulty of governing Ireland has been immeasurably increased by the Opposition treating the violation of laws as a cardinal virtue." He. warned them that if H came to a test of power they would find it an impossible task. Mr. Balfour said Harrel was condemned because ho had not the insight to see that as the Government did nothing in Ulster, therefore they were expectci* to do nothing anywhere else. "It is wrong to condemn a man because he doesn't see with the subtle eye to the votes which the Government have in the Commons." Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald warned thi Opposition of the danger of openly abetting lawlessness. This Tory doctrine would be reemmbercd during a bi« strike.

Mr. Healy said that Mr. Churchlil had filled the creeks and coasts of Ireland with gunboats, but gun-running was now heard of for the first time. If they got guns past the Government official who interferes then it was to be condemned. Large excited crowds paraded the Dublin streets last night, singing patriotic songs and threatening the barracks, which the Irish volunteers surrounded for two hours, not carrying arms, for the purpose of keeping order.