IMPORTANT CONCESSION EXPECTED.
London, March (5
The Radical press accepls as authoritative, the statement that Wednesday's Cabinet meeting decided to offer any Irish county wishing to do so, the right to exclude it .elf from Home Utile after a triennium by a plebiscite.
Loudon, March 7
It is expected thai Mr Asquith (.Premier) will oil'or a plebiscite to all the counties iv Ireland. This action is attributed to a desire to satisfy the Nationalists, give an appearance of uniformity, and nominally that no special treatment will be accorded to Ulster.
The Union .Defence League, which is circulating for signature a memorial against Home Rule, has received applications for forms sutlicient for a million signatures.
London. March 8
Lord Selborne, speaking «\t Darlington, said the present crisis had arisen because half the couutry tried to trample upon the convictions of the othet half. That was impossible in democracy. He rather favoured a devolution because it would cripple the party machine and re-arrange public opinion iv Pritaih in a less artificial manner. There was no chance of peace it" the baptism of Home Hide was in bbod.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLII, Issue 6085, 9 March 1914, Page 5
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