IRELAND.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1918, Page 6

IRELAND.

THE CONSCRIPTION ISSUE.

PASSIVE RESISTANCE SUGGESTED.

London, April 10. The Rev. Father Bradley, Catholic administrator of Armagh parish, states that a solemn League and Covenant v.-ill be founded passively to resist conscription. A number of meetings in Ireland passed resolutions recommending resistance. Several Cork magistrates have resigned as a protest and tlm Countv Council yesterday refused to transact business.

! The Daily Chronicle states that it is understood Mr. Lloyd George gave the j'fhnr Ministers an emphatic assurance that ihb Government woujd press the L'ome Kale Bill. It is expected that J Mr. Barnes will speak on the third reading to-day. A congress of Irish' trade unionists meets on Saturday to discuss conscription. The majority are Ulstcnnen, but :t is believed the congress is overwhelmingly against the proposal. Tim Parliamentary correspondent of the Daily Telegraph' says that the dramatic episode of Sir E. Carson's intervention has created a new parliamentary situation. He struck a true blow "from Iwhind amid rapturous applause jfroin the Nationalists, who rallied to t 'arson as a brother Irishman against he Government. It is I:>,ie their 1 ulterior object-! are different, hut their paths yesterday lay together.