IF FAMINE OCCURS.

Mataura Ensign, 4 July 1914, Page 5

IF FAMINE OCCURS.

PRECAUTIONS IN ULSTER. LAYING IN FOOD STOCKS. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. TIMES AND SYDNEY BUN SERVICES. -.Received July •}, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, July 3. Residents of Ulster are laying in big stocks of flour, meal and provisions against the prospects of a famine. f , HOUSE OF LORDS' DEBATE. Bl ELBCTBIO TELEGRAPH COPTEIOHT. PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, July 3. The Marquis of Londonderry (one of the Ulster leaders) in the House of Lords asked if the Government was absolutely sincere. Was Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith: (Prime Minister) prepared to support the Marquig of Crewe (.Leader of the House of Lords) and tell Mr Redmond (Nationalist leader) that he will insist on amendments of a farreacljing character being accepted ? Unless the House of Commons considered the House of Lords' amendments the proceedings-would be a farce. Lord Wimborne, who replied on behalf of the Government, asked the Opposition not to put forward a 1 maxirfnim hut a minimum, which would satisfy Ulster. ' , The Earl of Dunraven. urged the Government to drop both Bills, and call a convention of irishmen to decide the future of Ireland. Lord Islington (formerly Governor of ' New Zealandj said that Ulster must be altowed to come in its own time and under its own conditions, but with armed Catholics facing armed Portastants exclusion alone would avert a con-', flict. , The Earl of Halsbury considered it utgent and necessary to do something _ to avoid civil war. He supported the second reading of the Amending Bill. The debate stands adjourned until Monday.

A PROTEST FROM AUSTRALIA,

SYDNEY, July 3. The Archbishop, Dean, Archdeacon and clergymen of the archdiocese of Sydney have signed a petition protesting against the proposed coercion of Ulster.