ULSTER AND HOME RULE.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 170, 18 July 1919, Page 5

ULSTER AND HOME RULE.

CARSON'S STRONG SPEECH. PROSECUTION SUGGESTED. LONDON, July 17. Mr. J". R. Clynes, in moving the adfournment of the House of Commons today, drew attention to the Government's failure to prosecute Sir Edward Carson for his speech on the Home Rule issue, as it was inciting to violence and calculated to endanger the safety of the realm. The motion was rejected by 217 votes to 73 after the Attorney-General and Mr Bonar Law had emphasised that no law had been broken- Sir Edward Carson's speech was hypothetical. Mr Bonar Law stated earlier that he had consulted the law officers and had been advised that there was no ground for proceeding against Sir Edward Carson. Several Unionift newspapers protested when the speech was delivered at his revival of the Home Rule controversy without waiting for the Government's scheme. The Opposition papers described it as a Bolshevik utterance and a menace to the peace of the world. The "Daily Telegraph" approved of Sir Edward Carson's plain speaking.— (A. and KZ. Cable.) No report of the speech made by Sir Edward Carson, to which exception lias leen taken, has been received by cable. Lord Reading, Lord Chief Justice, who temporarily vacated his high office to fill, during the latter years of the war, the position of British Ambassador to the Tinted States, on his return to England in May last said: '1 come back from America more convinced than ever that the future of the world depends in the main on the relations between ourselves and the United States. The Irish agitation is the main cause of anti-British feeling in America. During the war it was quiescent, but as soon as hostilities ceased it again became evident, and it has undoubtedly increased in intensity. It would be foilv not to recognise this fact."