BRITISH POLITICS.

Mataura Ensign, 29 January 1912, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE ULSTER SPEECH. MR CHURCHILL'S POSITION. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT. r»EB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Received January 29, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 28. Mr Ramsay MacDonaid (Socialist Leader), speaking at Leicester, said he would vote for Home Rule. He was amazed that Mr Winston Churchill had yielded. His duty was to go to Ulster as Luther had gone to Worms. In December, 1520, th© newly-elected Emperor, Charles V., at his first Diet at Worms, received a command from Rome to execute a Papal bull condemning Martin Luther, the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany. Luther was summoned to meet the Diet on April 16, 1521. He accepted the challenge and declared that he would go to Worms "were there asi many devils tthere as tiles on the houses." An attempt was made by trickery to execute the bull when Luther appeared before the Diet, but he was smuggled away by his friends. NO HALL AT BELFAST. Received January 29, 10.40 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 28. No hall has vet been found for Mr Churchill at Belfast. THE UNIONIST SPEECH. ■«' BEST FOR YEARS." Received January 29, 10.40 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 28. Newspapers applaud Mr Bonar Law's (Leader of the Unionists) speech, which they term the best fighting speech for years. THE WELSH CHURCH. Received January 29, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 28. A leading Wesleyan manifesto has been issued urging that any scheme of disendowment in Wales should be just and rather err on the side of generosity to our Episcopalian brethren. Bishop Willesden, applauding the manifesto, states that if the terms are the same as those granted to the Irish Church, Wales will be in a very strong financial position. Mr R. McKenna (Home Secretary), referring to Welsh dis-establishment at a meeting in the Queen's Hall, announced that, subject to existing life interests, the Government proposed to disendow the Church to the extent of £IBI,OOO per annum, and devote the money to national purposes.-