EXCLUSION OR FIGHT

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 166, 14 July 1914, Page 5

EXCLUSION OR FIGHT

.1 CARSON'S CHALLENGE. GRIM DETERMINATION TO BLOCK HOME RULE. /f A BELFAST DEMONSTRATION. tßy Cable.—Tress Association. —Copyright) (Received 11.5 a.m.) LOXDOX, July 13. A procession of 50,000 Clstermen, headed by Sir Edward Carson, marched . from Belfast to ]>rumbeg. The streets were lined with spectators, and tremendous ovations were accorded the leaders. The military were confined to barracks, . and the demonstration proved uneventful. Sir Edward Carson, in his address. said tlie Provisional Oovernment gave him the power to exercise government authority lo prevent Home Rule being placed on the Statute Book, and he would exercise that power with tbe grimmest , determination. He would give Mr Asquith the alternative to grant complete exclusion or to come and fight them. If tiie Covernmcnt did not give justice, then lister would take it. AMENDING BILL. In the House of Lords, on the report stage of the Home Rule Amending Bill. Lord McDonnell's amendment, providing for proportional representation, was adopted. Mi- Asquith informed the House of Commons to-day that he hoped to deal with the Home Rule Amending Bill next week. The Premier's task to-day will tax his powers to the uttermost, declares the "Daily Citizen." A full and frank review of the Parliamentary situation is needed. A few more false steps and there will be a collapse, with the loss of everything piloted through under the shelter of the Parliament Act. I'nless the millionaire Liberals can be brought to heel the f'ovcrmnent is doomed. THE LORDS' REJECTION. The "Daily Chronicle" contends that the Government should regard the House of Lords' rejection of the terms of the Amending Bill with equanimity, and place the Home Rule Bill on tbe Statute Book before sanctioning attempts at ' further negotiation. Tiie Roman Catholic clergy in lister solemnly warned their congregations against the slightest interference with tlie Orange Day processions, urging them to avoid llie various routes of the processions. A hundred extra police were sent to Londonderry and twenty extra to Moneymore. The Xationalists and Unionists came into conflict nt Kiilen. StODcs were thrown and revolvers fired. One Xat ionalist was severely mauled. Major Crcan reviewed 4.000 Nationalist volunteers at Castle Rcllingliam to-day. Fifty thousand rounds of ammunition were carried into lister during tlie week-end.

CARSON CONGRATULATED.

(Received 0.2."> a.m.l SYDNEY, this day. Tn continuation of the Orange celebrations, a meeting dispatched a congratulatory cable to Sir Edward Carson. A further donation of £">OO to the lister funds was announced.