THE IRISH TANGLE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9743, 7 March 1914, Page 5

THE IRISH TANGLE.

"HARD TO AGREE TO CONCESSIONS." WARNING FROM BANK OF ENGLAND. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) LONDON, March 6. Significance i s attached to Mr Devlin's hurried visits to the Bishops of Raphoe and p<ri'\. Mr Devlin stroiigly opjx>stxl modification of the Bill. Mr T. P. 0 Connor, in Reynolds' sa\ she 111 not. candid ;md s;iy that the Nationalists have not found ii hard to agree 0 tho concisions that tho (iovonmiont is al»ut to offer, and ar<- abie to accept. Them •nly after anxious and prolonged reflection, in the hope ti:;it, they will bring peace. The Daily Telegraph says the. Governor v>t the 15ank of England conveyed the diie<'toi> views to Mr L!ovd-Gearjje that .m\ cp. u tin moil in Ireland would seriously aff.vt P.ritisli finances. lr. is unusual for tho bank t<£ take this course unless opinion is sought. SEC RET SERVICE IN ULSTER. WATCHING THE MANOEUVRES. (Times and Sydney Sin- Services) LONDON, March 6. An extensive system of espionage is maintained over the field manoeuvres of the 1 istor volunteer force. A big staff of special men from the Criminal Investigation De-pa-itment. and the Irish Constabularv arc spread throughout Lister, showing that the ruo\ement is causing concern 10 the Viceroy. Th<> »-aoernes« t 0 -sign the dtx-laration agam.it. ttie coercion <>f I lster has overtaken •he capacity <if ihe existing organisation to cope tlurewith. J.ord Soutliamptom has offered to obtain ten thousand signatures. PUBLIC REFUSES TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY. "POLITICAL PARTNERSHIP" ALLEGED. Received March 7 3.15 a.m. LONDON, March 6. Ihe public riiuses to tfike seriously the appea] made bv Lord Roberts and other prominent men, issued on behalf of Ulster, it is pointed out. that the. signatories have wholly destroyed the force of their declaration by the insertion of a clause that, by -igiiing the document-, no man has pledged himself to lake any particular action winch us conscience and judgment does not approve.

Referring to the signatories, the Daily uronicie remarks: "Most, of the men are eminent in iheir non-politica] spheres, out they show. not. for the first time, that e.gnular puerility of political vision and intolerant political partisanship to which eminent non-political men are greatlv prone. •Such men, indeed many of the same men made precisely similar exhibitions four years ago over Mr Lloyd-George's Budget, which wae denouiuvd as the end of all things yet mo*t of them had contrived to live tolerably f ell ever *mce. '

EXCLUSION BY PLEBISCITE.

LONDON, March 6. The Radical press accepts as authoritative the statement that .Wednesday's Cabinet decided to offer to any Irish county wishing U> exclude itself from Home Rule for three years by a plebiscite.