MR REDMOND'S DEMAND.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 147, 28 July 1914, Page 8

MR REDMOND'S DEMAND.

** MONSTROUS DISCRIMINATION."

PREMIER DEFENDS THE SOLDIERS

(Received July 28, 1.25 p.m.) ' LONDON, July 27. In moving the adjournment of the House, Mr Redmond said there had been no attempt to disarm the Ulster Volunteers. .He wanted to know who were responsible for this monstrous attempt to discriminate. He understood Sir J. Ross, who was Mr Harrel's superior and a well-known political partisan, was in Dublin, and demanded that Sir J. Ross should be suspended and put on his trial. Also the Scottish Borderers should be removed from Ireland, and that the proclamation regarding the importation »f arms be revoked. denied that the soldiers fired on a defenceless mob. The Government had not taken action against the TJlsterites, and consequently ought not to take proceedings against the Nationalists. Mr Bonar Law said the Government, in trying to find a scapegoat to save themselves, had condemned Mr Harrel without trial. He deplored the incident, which was due to the fact that the Government abrogated authority in Ireland. Mr Asquith said the soldiers had been exposed to great provocation and had

not exceeded their duty, which was to

support the civil power. He believed the soldiers would emerge with credit from the enquiry. Lord Robert Cecil moved the closure

of the'debate, but this was defeated by > 249 votes to 217 and the motion was then' talked out.

COMMISSIONER RESIGNS.

SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT

(Received July 28, 2.15 p.m.) LONDON, July 27. : " Sir J. Ross, Chief Commissioner of .the Dublin police, has resigned.

HOW THE FIGHTING STARTED.

A DEMAND FOR RIFLES.

v , OFFICER'S REQUEST,

(Received July 28, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, July 27. ' Mr Figgis, the well-known writer, the eommander of the Dublin Volunteers, states that he told Mr Harrel, when the latter demanded the rifles, that it was unlikely that two thousand men would yield without a struggle. Mr Harrel replied: I mean to have those guns.

Mr Figgis stated that his men had ammunition and would be sure to use it.

Mr Harrel rejoined that his men also had ammunition and intended to use it.

Mr Figgis: In that case the bloodshed will be on your head. The volunteers then resisted, and the soldiers made a bayonet charge.

Mr Figgis declares that the soldiers then, fired.

Mr Figgis adds that an officer of the Scottish Borderers asked to be allowed Vo fire. Mr Harrel refuse!.

When the news reached Belfast, the priests paraded in the Nationalist quarter, and exhorted the people to remain quiet.

AT THE DEVIL'S BIT.

A NATIONALIST REVIEW.

POSITION OF THE ARMY.

The Nationalists held a review at the tranxmit of, the Devil's Bit, a mountain in mid-Tipperary. A large number of corps were equipped and some were armed. Members of the Provisional Committee at Dublin, made impassioned speeches, in which they declared that if civil war came the Irish Regiments of the British Army would support the Nationalist Volunteers. The "Daily Chronicle's" Dublin correspondent says that the tragedy will re-act. on the political situation. The Nationalists were only doing what the Orangemen had done with impunity. The obvious discrimination must offend e> ery right-thinking man. "We want to know why the authorities were passive in Ulster and active in Dublin. ;- The Army has cut a sorry figure in the £r test 18 months."

I WOMEN AND CHILDREN. fcgf..; " „_ ..

PEEPAEATIONS IN ULSTER.

REMOVAL FOR SAFETY.

The Ulster Provisional Government has made elaborate arrangements for the accommodation of women and children in Belfast prior to their removal across the Channel to partake of the hospitality of supporters in Glasgow ' and Liverpool.