THE HOME RULE TANGLE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 4275, 26 June 1916, Page 5

THE HOME RULE TANGLE.

STRIKING LETTER IN HOME PRESS.

“NEGOTIATIONS HAVE MADE POSITION MORE CRITICAL.’'

COULD AIR. REDMOND MAIN-

TAIN A FOLLOWING?

(Received Juno 25, 5 p.m.) LONDON, June 24

Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Earl Cromer, Earl Halsbury, and. Lords Middleton and Salisbury, in a joint letter to tho press, say that tho grave position in Ireland has been rendered more critical by tho negotiations now in progress. A go-as-you-please system of Irish Government had injured credit and daw. There was even good reason to believe it had opened the country to German influence. Sedition wgs more rampant than fifty years ago. They declare that the Government, should not give up its machinery in the middle of so vital a struggle. They believe that if an election wero held in Ireland Air. Redmond could not maintain a following or govern in the face of tha Sinn Fein and other influences. His proposals wero fraught with infinite clanger to tho Empire and the Allies.

ULSTER NATIONALIST CONFERENCE.

Mil. REDMOND ISSUES AN ULTIM ATUAL

LLOYD GEORGE'S PROPOSALS ADOPTED.

(Received June 25, 5 p.m.) LONDON, June 25

The Ulster Nationalist Conference •sat for six hours and voted county by county. It is understood Air. John Redmond made a powerful appeal, in which he declared that if the conference refused the proposals he would not again appear on a public platform as the leader of the Irish party. His ultimatum created a deep impression. Armagh voted against and Antrim for. Thereafter the voting for the acceptance of the proposals steadily increased. Official: The Conference by 475 to 263 'adopted Air. Lloyd-G'eorge’s proposals.