IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1918, Page 5

IRELAND.

CONSCRIPTION AND home RULE.

CAUSING ANXIETY IN OmCIAL CIRCLES.

Received April 17, 5.-5 pan. United Service. ' London, April 10. The Irish attitude to conscription and flame Sale is causing increasing anxiety in Government circles. The Times ' Dublin correspondent states that Ulsterites accept conscription, but resolutely oppose Home Rule. They tram the Gorernmeut that the qWtions mart be kept wholly distinct. The Nationalists, on the other hand, hare dropped Home Rule, concentrating an pauive resistance on the conscription issue, fear of which has prefaced in these day* close alliance of the parties and persons who have been at each other's throats for three years. Mr. Dillon is approaching Messrs Dc Valera, Healy, and O'Brien. The Church is leading the whole movement. Official and independent newspapers are combining to assist.

STATEMENT BY MR. DILLON,

OF THE FEELING IN IRELAND.

Received April, 17, 8.30 p.m.

London, April 10. In the House of Common* Mr. Dillon moved the omission of clause 2, enabling the Order-in-Council to apply to manpower in Ireland. He said that no power on earth had, the moral right to conscript a single resident of Ireland except a body representing the Irish nation. The attempt would have consequences as far-reaching and as serious as the attempt to tax the American colonies. He had Been forty years of political life, and never knew anvthing approaching the feeling in Ireland today. If conscription were applied, the chao* and confusion would be appalling. Already business was becoming paralysed. The Nationalists believed Sir Edwart Carson and the Orangemen had started conscription for the purpose of raising such a passon that a Home Rule settlement would he mpossible.

fiJR E. CARSON MAKES CONCESSION. XO SAVE CIVILISATION FfiOJa ENEMY VICTORY. Received April 17,10.20 p.m. London, April id. Mr. Barnes, replying to Mr. Dillon, promised that the Government would bring in the Home Rule Bill immediately and use every pressure to pass it into law- He believed Home Rule might pass More the c?anse of nation*] service became operative, bat he refused to pledge the Government to this effect.

Answering Mr. Healy's interjection, Mr. Lloyd George said the Government would resign if it failed to carry Home Rule or the Home of Lords rejected it. Sir Edward Carson said be would sapport tiie Man Power BiH, even if the Government put Ulster under the Nationalists, as now threatened- He would prefer anything to the whole of civilisation being impeded by the victory of our enemies. He continued that it was now dear that no recruits in Ireland would tie conscripted until the Home Bnle Bill had been passed. The Government were handing over Ulster as the price'for conscription, and he asked if the "rationalist* would withdraw their objection to conscription when the Bill passed. Personally he believed conscription wqu'.d be even more difficult then, as the Irish Government would expose it-

TOE POLICE ATTACKED.

6HE27 PEDffIRS RBSCOE A PRISONER. Saearted April 17, 8.30 p-m. ■ Times Service. London, April 16. At Widow, a crowd of Sinn Femera /Hacked the notice, removing a Sinn FthW who had been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for illegally drilling. A baton charge followed A county hMytffrir m injured. The crowd swept <k* station and damaged an engine, and latar teoka into the police banarirt and MMHat'ala nrlaoa**