"NO GREAT GULF"

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 117, 19 May 1914, Page 7

"NO GREAT GULF"

TIME-LIMIT FOR ULSTER NO PARLIAMENT CAN BIND ITS SUCCESSOR WHAT NOBODY BELIEVES. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) LONDON, 18th May. The Daily Chronicle (Liberal), in its political notes, says that there is no great gulf between the proposed time limit for Ulster and Sir Edward Carson's formula: "Until Parliament otherwise determines." No Parliament can bind its successor. There is no security that the six-year limit, even if enacted, would bo left . intact by a succeeding Parliament, and if the time limit goes, any county included in Ulster should be enabled to enter whenever it wished. Nobody believes that exclusion will be permanent, inasmuch as the centripetal force of a national Parliament is bound ultimately to draw all Ireland into Home Rule. ABSTENTION FROM PROVOCATION APPEAL TO ALL SIDES. BROTHERHOOD OF ALL BRITISH PEOPLE. LONDON, 18th May. Dr. Frodsham (formerly Bishop of North Queensland), in a letter to the press emphasising the earnestness of the Ulster volunteers, appeals to all sides to abstain from provocation, which would be almost certain ( to precipitate a conflict. After watching the wider growth of Australian citizenship, he (the Bishop) is inspired by the conviction that it is essential to have a brotherhood of all the British peoples. If the wedge be driven in at Ulster, it will tear asunder the hopes of a united Ireland and a united Empire.