PRESS COMMENT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 28 April 1914, Page 5

PRESS COMMENT.

LONDON, April 27. The Morning Post says the situation is extremely grave. It is obvious that the Government cannot ignore the gunrunning incident, but on the other hand it is unlikely that the volunteers will submit unresistingly to the arrest of their leaders and the seizure of the arms.

The Daily Mail says the Government's lawless attempts to use force are a justification of the gun-running. The Chronicle remarks tha tthe gunrunning exploit justifies the Government's precautions to guard the depots, and they ought to despatch a larger force now that the Ulster Council has ordered "the volunteers to commit a serious crime which shows Carsonism in its full criminal colors.

The Times says the Government first jeered at Ulster about "wooden guns," and then planned a secret coup, which failed, and furnished a fresh incentive to Ulster to arm herself, whereof the gun-running was the. outcome. The Daily News says the plea of tolerance to Ulster now falls to the ground, and the paper demands the punishment of everyone participating in gun-running.