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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10543, 27 January 1912, Page 5

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(United-Press Association—By Eleo trie Telegraph — Copyright.)

ORANGEMEN'S THREATS MR REDMOND'S OPINION. i (Received Last Night, 9.25 o'clock.) LONDON, January, 26. Unofficial reports! state that the Harbour Board desire to defer the Hon. Winston Churchill's inspection until political feeling is calmer. The Times' Dublin correspondent states-'-that'-it is understood that the Irish Executive is averse to the employment of troops, fearing that, if the Unionists resisted, much Moodshed and disorder would ensue, while if they yielded to lore?, this would enable tlieim. to prove that Hbme Rule was only tlirust upon Ulster nt the bayonet's point. There would be still greater risks if. Mi Winston Churchill speaks elsewhere than in ■the .Ulster Hall.

'Mr Redmond, in an article in Reynolds' Newspaper, declares that there is no terror .in-Ulster-"of the Orangemen's threats, which are only "indent ibhiff." They are loyal only in their own bigoted interests, and England would be a nation of fools land poltroons if it allowed itself to be diverted by unpatriotic bellowing** from, a great poh.y binding Ireland to the Empire. Mr Winston Churchill, in a letter to Lord Londoddei—y, emphasised the latter's reflnonsibiiity, if rioting occurred.. Still, it is his (Mr Churchill's) dirty ,vtjo keep his promise to th%! j; U]ster Liberals, and to assert the,right of free speech. If the main objection was the using of the Ulster Hall, he would ask the Liberal Association to choose whatever hall,would least- arouse the ill-feeling or<the Or■angemen.