ARMS FOR IRELAND

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 7

ARMS FOR IRELAND

PROVIDED BY IRISHAMERICANS ( SHOULD PRECAUTIONS BE TAKEN ? i QUESTIONS IN HOUSE OF, COMMONS. [ (Bj Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.) (Received June 27, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, 26th June. In the House of Commons Mr. Hunt (Unionist) enquired whether ll r. Asquitli (Prime Minister) would take special steps to prevent arms provided by Irish-Americans entering Ireland, j and increasing the danger of civil war. Mr. Newman (Unionist) asked whether the Government proposed to make representations to the United States on the matter. Mr. Lloyd GJeorga replied that 4 the I Government did -not propose to make re* presentations to the United States. Mr. Hunt then enquired : "Are we to understand that the Government will continue in political alliance with a party whose volunteers are, armed by deadly enemies of this country?" Mr. Lynch (Nationalist) desired to know if the Ministry had ascertained} how much American money had already come to Ireland to abet civil war through the agency of American heiresses. The questions were not answered. (PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 .) CONFERENCE AT THIS STAGE WOULD BE A DESPEEATE REMEDY. LETTER TO THE PRESS BY MR. O'BRIEN. LONDON, 26th June. Mr. William O'Brien (Independent Nationalist leader), in a letter to the newspapers, says that a conference at this stage would be a desperate remedy, but it is the only escape from a desperate calamity. Let the House of Lords propose an all-party Convention, as Earl Grey had suggested, and .adjourn the Home Rule and the amending Bill for three months, pending the Convention'-s report. But the Convention should proceed exclusively .as an Irish conference. THE AMENDING BILL UNIONIST LEADERS DRAFT AMENDMENTS. » , LONDON, 26th June. / The Unionist leaders have drafted amendments to the amending Bill. It is understood they are designed to abolish the time limit and extend the projected area of exclusion. Lord Willoughby de Broke has given notice of. motion to reject the Bill, but i the motion has not received the Official sanction of the Unionists. i - SIR E. CARSON APPEALS FOE ACTIVE SUPPORT FOR ' •' ' ULSTER. "INTERVAL OF GREATEST DANGER." v ' LONDON, 26th June. Sir Edward Carson, writing" in the magazine Our Flag, said he wished lie could support the view that the Home Rule Amending Bill showed a real desire on the part of the Government to avert disaster. On the contrary, it demonstrated that no progress had been made since March. It would be ludicrous to provide that Ulster must accept any, administration which the LordLieutenant (who would be subject to the advice of his Dublin Ministers) desires to set up. The whole thing was a policy of drift, and it looked as if there would be no effort of statesmanship to solve the problem. Sir Edward Carson appeals" to gym* pathisers to give Ulster active and determined support in the struggle. Viscount Milner. formerly Hign* Commissioner, for South Africa, in a speech at the Constitutional Club, said that whether the present attempt to avert disaster, succeeded or failed depended upon whether or not the Governm?nt emancipated itself at the eleventh hour from the vassalage of the Nationalist Party. Previous overtures hail been futile, _ because the Government had entered itfto them with their hands tied. He was prepared to approach the Amending Bill with a desire to tide over the 1 interval "of greatest danger. They had no right to throw away the last poor chance of saving the country from a great calamity. FRANKLY PESSIMISTIC ' FEELING IN IRELAND/ » THE INCREASING DIFFICULTIES OF MR ASQUITH. (HUES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.) LONDON, 26th June. Feeling in Ireland regarding the prospects of the Homo Rule Amending Bill is frankly pessimistic. The Nationalists dislike the apologetic tone adopted by the Marquis of Crewe ./Secretary of State lor ( India) in his speech on the first reading; in the House of Lords, while the Ulstermen are angry and dc fiant. J The increuaing difficulties of the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) _ support the rumours of an early election. The appeal of Mr. John Redmond (Nationalist Leader) to the Irish-Am-ericans, for funds to support the Nationalist Volunteer movement, passed almost unnoticed in the United States press, but the Irish Committee in New York cabled £1000, and promised to supply all the money required.