MESSAGE TO AUSTRALASIA

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 71, 25 March 1914, Page 5

MESSAGE TO AUSTRALASIA

FROM MR REDMOND

"THE ULSTER ORANGE PLOT."

(Received March 25, 0.40 p.m.) LONDON, March 24. . The Press Association cables as follows:—"We are requested to send the following as Mr Redmond's statement to Australasian sympathisers :—The Ulster Orange plot* has now been completely revealed. .Sir, Edward Carson and his army have not and never •have^ had the.. slightest intention of fighting as a fighting force against the regulars. They could not hold out- for a week.. The plan, was to put up the appearance of a.fight and then society influences would seduce the army officers and thus intimidate the Government and defeat the people's will. The action of the .commanders of some of the orack cavalry regiments officered by aristocrats now fully discloses jbhe plan of campaign and raises an .issue wider even than Home Rule: Whether the Democratic Government is to be brow-beaten and dictated to by the drawing rooms in Loridcra # and a section of officers who are aristocrats and violent Tory partisans. The cause of Irish . freedom;'lias in this fight become the cause of popular freedom, order, and liberty' throughout the world/ It is impossible to doubt the result of such a fight. The second reading will be taken on Monday and the. Bill will be proceeded with until it fiiids a place on the Statute Book. '.'.-•'

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