OPTIMISM

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1914, Page 7

OPTIMISM

! MR. BIRRELL ON THE IRISH PROBLEM SITUATION GRAVE ■ BUT HE WAS NEVER MORE SANGUINE. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright.) (Received July 13, 9.30 a.m.) , '' LONDON, 12th JulyJ The Right Hon. A. Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, speaking at' a Liberal garden party at Bristol, said the situation in Ireland was grave, but he was never more sanguine that a reasonable settlement would be reached. They must keep their tempers and be fully determined that they were not going to lose the fruits of victory. The Liberals would only be satisfied if they secured for the Irish people Home Rule PROVISIONAL PARLIAMENT DELEGATES FROM ALL PARTS OF ULSTER. officialTreport. LONDON, 11th July. _ The delegates to the Provisional Parliament are from all parts of Ulster and aro of all classes. Others present are the Duke of Aberconn, Marquis of Londonderry, and th© Ulster Unionist ■members. There are only a few police present. Armed volunteers are encircling Ulster Hall. • In an official report, it is stated that the Ulster Provisional Government has resolved that it is willing to consider any proposal for preserving Ulster's rights under th© Imperial Parliament, but it distrusts the Government's bona fides, and is therefore compelled to press on with the arrangements to resist the imposition of Home Rule, and has in* structed the executive to act accordingly. It is enjoined on all supporters to see that everyone within Ulster has the right \to enjoy full civil and religious freedom, and urges all loyalists to maintain the same restraint as hitherto, carrying out whatever steps the executive considers desirable. SIR E. CARSON'S RECEPTION. ' 'MrLITARY^HONOURS. A SURPRISE DEMONSTRATION.' LONDON, 10th July. Sir Edward Carson was greeted on arrival at Belfast by a crowd of many thousands. He was accompanied by Mr. Walter Long (one-time Chief Secretary for Irelaaid), and walked through a double file of volunteers, with arms and rifles. He drove in Captain Craig's motor, the front of which was adorned with a huge horseshoe of orange-coloured flowers and Union Jacks. LONDON, 11th July. A surprise demonstration awaited Sir Edward Carson's party at the gates at Ulster Hall. Two hundred and fifty shipyard workers were drawn up in close order, having marched to Craigavon to salute their leader. Sir Edward Carson wag deeply touched. He conversed with the men, who, after cheering the King, returned tO| work. UNIONIST PRESS WARNING "STORM MAY BURST AT ANY MOMENT." "A HORDE OF TORY JOURNALISTS." LONDON, 11th July. Unionist papers publish despatches and editorials warning the public of tha storm which may burst at any moment. Ulstermen are sick of inaction. One paper declares that "Sir Edward Carson an his speech to the Ulster Council said that the height of the crisis was hardly more than a matter of minutes. Liberal papers declare that "Ulster is being invaded by a. horde of Tory journalists, and warn their readers not to accept the sensational statements. They express disgust that the moment the moderates of all parties are striving for a settlement is deliberately chosen to scare the public and intimidate the Government. MR. LONG INTERVIEWED NO CHANCE FOR THE PEACEMAKERS. ■ MR. CHURCHILL'S BELIEF. LONDON, 11th July. Mr. Walter H. Long, M.P., interviewed at Belfast, said that the feeling was such that, any attempt at peacemaking as the basis of a compromise was doomed to failure. Mr. Winston Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty), speaking at Dundee, said he believed that a settlement would be reached, to which both Houses would contribute. GENERAL POLE-CAREW INSPECTS VOLUNTEERS BRITISH LEAGUE RAISING MEN. RIFLES AND AMMUNITION LANDED. LONDON, 11th July. General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew (Unionist M.P., who retired from the Army in 1906), inspected the Glasgow Ulster Volunteers, bidding them learn to hit the^ mark. The British League in support of Ulster has enrolled in England, Wales, and Scotland 20,000 men pledged" to go to Ireland at a moment's notice. It is reported from Tralee that 2500 rifles of a French pattern were landed on the Kerry coast. A steamer landed at Belfast 300 rifles and 10,000 cartridges, concealed in tires. A portion of the consignment has been despatched to Derry. ' BATTLE OP THE BOYNE ORANGEMEN GUARANTEE GOOD ORDER. CELEBRATIONS IN SYDNEY. LONDON, 11th July. , Orangemen guarantee good order during the Battle of the Boyne celebrations. SYDNEY, 12th July. ' There were unusually largo and enthusiastic attendances at tho Twelfth of July celebrations. The speeches were chiefly condemnatory of the Catholic education claims. The Home Rule issue was not prominent. ARMS PROCLAMATION ' NATIONALIST VOLUNTEERS RESENT RESTRICTIONS. (TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SEBVICEB.) (Received July 13, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON. 12th July. Nationalist volunteers in the South i of Ireland bitterly resent the restrictions

imposed by the Arms Proclamation, and declare that they "will not only get rifles, but carry them in public. "TWO SEPARATE FACTORS" QUIET, HONEST" OPPOSITION. AND A PURELY POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. (TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.) (Received July 13, 8.20 a.m.) LONDON, 12th July. . Tho Westminster Gazette (Liberal), in a leader on the Ulster problem, says :—: — "From the beginning there have been two separate factors —one of quiet, honest opposition, the other purely a political campaign set in motion by Army wire-pullers, stage managers, advertisers, and kinematographers, who exploit and vulgarise whatever is sincere'in the attitude of the Covenanters." ' AUTUMN SESSION LONDON, 12th July. According to the Daily News, the new session of Parliament will open at the end of November. NO EVIDENCE OF PEACE PEACE WITH HONOUR—OR WAR WITH HONOUR. (Received July 13, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, 12th July. Sir Edward Carson inspected 2000 volunteers at Lame. He asked the men to have confidence in their leaders. He saw no evidence of peace and Ulstermen must be prepared while the shadows remained. Unless there was_ peace with honour there must be war with honour." MELBOURNE ORANGEMEN CABLE MESSAGE TO THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. (Received July 13, 9.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. An Orange meeting resolved to send the following cable message to the British Government: "An overflowing, profoundly enthusiastic demonstration implores Great Britain not to imperil the Empire. Ulster must repeat no surrender there. Army and Navy men enrolled here? at least 250, prepared to leave Australia to fight for Ulster, if necessary." EVERYTHING QUIET ORANGE PROCESSION TO-DAY. PICKETS IN THE INTERESTS OF PEACE. (Pi«ceived July 13, 2 p.m.) LONDON, 12th July. Commemoration services were held throughout Ulster. Everything is quieti Nationalist volunteers of Derry have intimated that they are organising pickets in the interests of peace to patrol the route of to-morrow's Orange procession.