IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Evening Star, Issue 15035, 18 November 1912, Page 6

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE UNIONIST o POLICY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 16. At the Unionist Conference resolutions were passed in favor of State assistance being given to enable agricultural workers to acquire holdings. The delegates also endorsed the Unionist housing policy, and condemned the payment of members. THE SUFFRAGISTS' MARCH. LONDON, November 17. The suffragettes have completed their march from Edinburgh. Five thousand sulfragettes welcomed them at a meeting held in Trafalgar square, and afterwards left a. monster petition at the Prime Minister's residence. WELSH CHURCH BILL NOT TO BE DROPPED. INEXCUSABLE VIOLENCE. LONDON, November 17. (Received November 18, at 9.5 a.m.) Mr Asquith denies the truth of the rumor that the Welsh Church Disestablishment Bill will be dropped this session. Sir E. Grey, in the course of a letter that was read at a Liberal meeting at Alnwick, commenting on the Unionists' militancy, said that as no measure whereto the Opposition object can operate until it has passed the House of Commons three times, or after an appeal to the country, the present' Unionist violence is inexcusable. MR REDMOND AND UNIONISTS. PROVEN ANARCHISTS. LONDON. November 17. (Received November 18. at 9.5 a.m.) Speaking at Cork, Mr Redmond said that the Unionist leaders, by their recent action, had proved themselves Anarchists. They had deliberately attempted to overcome the parliamentary majority by violence. If they succeeded, that would mean an end to parliamentary government. MR O'BRIEN AND THE GOVERNMENT. LONDON, November 17. (Received November 18, at 9.45 a.m.) Speaking at Coik. Mr William O'Brien, the leader of the Independent Nationalists, said that the Government's proposed Home Rule finance was rotten to the core.. Mr Lloyd George hated Home Rule and land purchase, and he had brought the Bill and the Government to the verge of ruin. Mr Lloyd George had clone more damage to Ireland's cause than anyone since the days of Cromwell.