HOME RULE CRISIS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16564, 30 May 1914, Page 11

HOME RULE CRISIS.

THE NATIONALIST VOLUNTEERS

M.P.'S TO HELP MOVEMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, May 28.

Mr Stephen Gwynn, M.P. for Galway City, states that the Irish Party has decided to permit members to support strongly the volunteer movement. Mr Gwynn adds:—"Home Rule may be taken off the statute books unless tho Nationalists are prepared to assert their determination by the same means as Ulstermen."

A CONCESSION TO ULSTER. (Received May 29, 9.4 S p.m.) LONDON, May 29

Mr T. P. O'Connor states that the Nationalists are willing to give Ulster such strong political power as will make her master of her own fate and armed against oppression in every form. SIR EDWARD CARSON DEFIANT. HOME RULE NEVER BECOME LAW IN ULSTER. LONDON, May 29. Sir Edward ■ Carson, in a speech at Mountain Ash, admitted that within five hours thirty-five thousand rifles and tliree million rounds of ammunition were landed in Ulster, but the Government did not dare to punish them. The Home Rule Bill might become the law of the land, but never would be law in Ulster. If the Government imagined that the third reading of the Bill was the last act of tho drama, he would tell them that it was only the first act of a gruesome tragedy. THE BOUNDARIES. LONDON, May 29. The "Daily Telegraph" states that the Government contemplates fixing tho Ulster boundaries by a religious census instead of county boundaries in exclusion from Home Rule.