MR WASON'S SUGGESTION

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1914, Page 5

MR WASON'S SUGGESTION

"THE BILL NOT WORTH BLOOD-

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SHED."

LONDON, March 23

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Mr Wason, M.P., writing to the newsoapers. suggests that .if sufficient Members of the House of Commons of all parties support the selfexclusion of the Ulster counties until the Federal' system is established, probably this Ministerial and Unionist jear'ers will-accent"the proposal. Mr MarciiV' Samuol hiis offere'tl

£lfyooD towards the fund to relieve the -families of officers resigning from conscientious motives. The offer is conditional on the Unionist leaders announcing their intention to restore the commissions.

At an Irish Convention at Dublin it was resolved to resist any temporary or permanent partition of Ireland.

Alderman Kelly remarked that the Home Rule Bill was not worth shedding a. drop of blood for. It was no satisfaction to them to have their northern countrymen shot down by British guns.