ULSTER PROTESTANTS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 112, 17 June 1914, Page 7

ULSTER PROTESTANTS.

READY AND DETERMINED.

WANT TO BE LET ALONE.

"Timi*" and "Sydney Sun" Service it.

LONDON, June 16

. The military cqi respondent o;f;?,VThe Times" says tj?ere. is not a Protestant inan, : woman* o.r child iu ; Ulster who does not vow. implacable aadr:<u»driug 'hostility; ; to .''Home ' Rule; -They ask.nothing anexpect to be let-alone. They mean to have- their way, or fight. They are now ready tand determined to fight with a will.

IMPORTATION OF ARMS.

PROCLAMATION UPHELD,

LONDON, June 16.

A majority of the King *s Bench Division, Dublin; upheld the arms proclamation in the Belfast test case.

AN OMINOUS FEATURE.

NATIONALIST VOLUNTEERS' • CONTROL. ;

1 "jtimes" and "'Sydney"Su'ii' r ''Service*. (TReceived June 17, .8 ja.ni.) ° 1 ; LdlCbON, June 16. ' Numerous meetings in Ireland have endorsed Mr Redmond claim to, control the Nationalist , volunteers. An ominous feature is the growing bitterness against the Ulster .,

THE ,

LORD LANSDOWNE'S CENSURE MOTION.

EXCLUSION IS THE ONLY

WAY: J '

(Received-June-17/ 10.25 a.m.) : LONDON, June 16

Lord Lansdowiiei- in moving his motion "of censure, 'said tliai' the existence of the ' Ulster ' and 1 Nationalist volunteers a prOof of the Government 's ; mismanagement and incompetence. The GoVbrnment was "doing nothing to' avert a dire calamity. The Ameiiding Bill, too,'ougiit to have been produced in the House of Commons long ago, and seeret conversations were not likely to be favourable. Earl Crewe said that if Lord Lansdowne would not havfe private conversations, then they must discuss the posi-' tion in Parliament. lie agreed that if the House of Lords amended the Amending Bill it would not mean that they concurred in principle of Home Rule. • If the only rbjad to settlement was tlie. exclusion of Ulster, it- would be wise to proceed by tiiat road. There 'would be no difficulty in deferring the second reading of the Home Rule Bill if Lord Lansdowne desired it.

1 - IN THE COMMONS.

■motion for adjournment.

: Lord- Robert Cecil moved the adjournment o£the House in order to call attention to the grave, danger through the, volunteer movements in Ireland, and the failure of the Government to deal with them.

A SERIOUS SITUATION.

CHIEF SECRETARY ON VOLUNTEERS;

(Received Jiirie 17, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, ; Jujic 16.

The Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, Chief iSecretary for Ireland,, in reply to 'a question, said the Rationalist. Volunteers had enormously increased the Seriousness of the ; situation. The Volunteers were rea<Jy jo #ght anybody, land were anxious to .s* v Home 3sule in its present form . ,an<J., , it afterwards. He asked , /what has become of the safegy#r , of the bill.