A JUSTIFICATION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 150, 21 December 1907, Page 7

A JUSTIFICATION.

SOLUTION OF IRISH DISORDER PROBLEM. v By Tclegrapll.— PrcM Association.— Copyright. LONDON, 20lh December. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 'in the course of a speech, at Berwick, justified the attitude adopted by the Right Hon. A. Eirroll, Chief Secretary for Ireland, in refraining from coercion, which would bring tho solution of the Irish disorder question no nearer. Replying to a deputation of Iridi landlords which waited on him in Dublin, Mr. Birroll said the Government h;:d refrained from enforcing the Grimes Act in Ireland for reasons which it would be quits prepared to state in the proper place when the time .arrived. Mr. Balfour recently declared that the reason why Mr. Bivrell was unable to obtain the conviction of cattle-drivers waa because he had refused to nut tha Grimes Act into operation. "Ministers," ha said, "havo uecome the slaves of their own perorations. They would rather see tho law flouted than recant their rash speeches." CATTLE "DRIVING" REPREHENSIVE. IT MUST JJE TUT DOWN. (Received December 21, 7.43 a.m.) LONDON, 20th December. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, tho Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, speaking at Aberdeen, said cattle driving was roprehensivo and peculiarly unpatriotic, tending as ; fc did to cripplo dne of Ireland's most important industries. 'lb must, and would, be put down.