LANSDOWNE'S REPLY

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 July 1916, Page 6

LANSDOWNE'S REPLY

TO REDMOND'S ATTACK.

NOT AHEAD OF PREMIER.

LONDON, July 14

The Marquis of Lansdowne, in a letter to the newspapers regarding the speech on the Irish question, to which Mr John Redmond took exception, says: "My statement regarding the permanent character of certain provisions of the amending bill wa not intended to go beyond the Prime Minister's declaration in the House of Commons on July 10, that the union of the six counties with the rest of Ireland could not be brought about without the freewill consent of the excluded areas."

A NEW VOICE

THREATENS THE SETTLEMENT. BIG AGITATION PROMISED. (Received 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 14. Mt Richard Jones, for many years identified with civic life in Dublin, and hitherto a staunch supporter of the Nationalist party, has issued a manifesto urging the formation of an Irish Patriotic Union. He threatens to ' exhaust every constitutional resource to render Mr Redmond's Provisional Government impossible, and declares that the agitations of past years will be as nothing to the storm that will be raised. He -adds: "If Mr Redmond and Mr Asquith persist in' sowing wind we will leave them to reap the whirlwind." He challenges the six Dublin members of the House of Commons toVresign and seek re-election, promising that they will be swept into ; oblivion.