DEBATE IN HOUSE OF LORDS.
LORD ROBERTS'B ADVICE
"TRAMP OF ARMED MEN."
LONDON, July 7. - -Ten" ffdiehar6s". vote's 'for 'Lord "•'"Willoughby 'del BToke's -motion for i rejection of' the anramling'BilL Lord" Roberts said ithat'tihe present * crisis 'affected the wery roots 6f ■ national existence. ', Any attempt to v<uso 'the military to "coerce "Ulster ■would break and ruin the army. He ■ urged all- parties, in the cause of ■ patriotism, to drop ;party differences ; aM seek a: national Twfttttdoir to avert ■ inexpressible disaster to the army ■ arid - nation. , , . r liO'rd €iirzon favored a convention, 'but time was. too pTedious and the - tensionytoo acute to allow, of that ■ course/ He-cotild not advocate' these solutions- when he heard the tramp «Jof armed meal. The amending Bill ■ must fill the gap till a -permanent V'Settlement was devised ~ Lord Crewe said that if "fch-e dropping r-tofiftie Home Rule Bill and the "drop'■ping of the Government-policy were J to' Be preliminaries, to a cou'ference or '•■convention" for a permanent Settlement, such a proposal could not'bo '.entertairiod. He asked the Opposition if the total ervolusion 'of Ulster ■ were' included in the Bill would they !^iv« a •guarantee against a - civil vconnic-t?' He was not asharnekl to-cay tthat' he heartily dreaded the idea' of -.a ci^il-eonSict.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 158, 8 July 1914, Page 5
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206DEBATE IN HOUSE OF LORDS. Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 158, 8 July 1914, Page 5
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