THE IRISH SITUATION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 30 May 1914, Page 5

THE IRISH SITUATION.

SPEECHES BY LEADERS

ULSTER DEFIANT.

&1T CABLE—PH.ESS ASSOCIATION—POPYRIGHI. LONDON, May 29. Mr T. P. O'Connor states that the Nationalists are willing to give Ulster such a strong political power as will make them masters of their own fate and armed against oppression of every form. Sir Edward Carson, speaking at Mountain Ash, admitted that within I five hours they landed 35,000 rifles and three million rounds of ammunition in Ulster, but the Government had not dared, to punish them. "The Home Rule Bill," he said, "may become the law of the land, but it will never be the law of Ulster.." If the Government imagined that the third reading was the last act of the drama, he would tell them it was only the first act of the gruesome tragedy. The Daily Telegraph says the Government contemplates fixing the Ulster boundaries by the religious census instead of by the county boundaries, in the exclusion from Home Rule.