RENEWED HOPES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9855, 24 July 1914, Page 5

RENEWED HOPES.

OF SUCCESS OF PALACE CiilfißK^fe. PRIME MINISTER AGAIN SCORES. HOW HE ANSWERED KING'S SPEECH CRITIC. (Bl EUOTBIC TIUQBAFH—CoPTBIUHT.) (>Fn PB«W AsSOCTAT»OIt.} Received July 24, 10.40 a.m. LONDON, July 23. ? The Palace Conference had a lengthy Bitting, and there are renewed hope* of a successful termination. i Replying to Right Hon. Sir J. H. Dalziel (Liberal) the Prime Minister (Mr . Asquith) Baid:—"The sentence in the King's speech was never intended to con(vey more than was obviously true—that i apprehensions of civil strife had been widely entertained and expresed by responsible i and sober-minded persons, amongst whom I may perhaps include myself." THE PALACE CONFERENCE. THE EXCLUSION QUESTION UNDER] DISCUSSION. Received July 24, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, July 23. The Palace Conference has adjourned till to-morrow. Cabinet eat last night There were also conferences between the Party leaders and the Speaker. It is believed they considered the exclusion of six Counties. Mr Hogge (Nationalist member for Derry), on a motion for adjournment of the Commons, said he desired to know whether the Conference was held conditionally or unconditionally. It should have been dissociated from the Palace and held in Parliament instead and also it should have been made clear that the Conference had not superseded Parliament. Sir J. A. Simon (Attorney-General), in the absence of the Premier, promised to ask Mr Asquith to deal with the suggestions. NATIONALIST PRESS WELCOME KING'S SPEECH. HOW MR ASQUITH CRUSHED HIS OWN PARTY PAPERS. LIBERAL JOURNAL'S SOMERSAULT. LONDON, July 23. Most of the Irish Nationalist newspapers welcome the sincerity of the King's speech. Freeman's Journal asserts that it exhibits not bias against the Nationalists aspirations, but on the .contrary, desires a peace* ful settlement.

The Daily Telegraph's • Parliamentary correspondent says Mr Asquith's explicit statement has destroyed the flimsy foundations whereon the legend was 'based that the King's speech betrayed Party bias. The Times says Mr Asquith crushed with swift directness the extraordinary attacks on the King by certain of his own followers and the entire Liberal press. The Timee hopes also that this ends one of the most discreditable episodes in the history of Radicalism.

The Morning Post says there is reason to believe that one of the causes leading Council advised that in the event of civil war it would be necessary to strengthen the forces in Egypt, India and some of the Home stations. , The Chronicle (Liberal) says Mr Asquith accepted responsibility for the King's speech with unreserved and almost aggressive loyalty which does him credit because it will be ueed to discredit him and the Party. The episode illustrates the difficulty of the King entering the political arena. In the present case the fault is less in the speech than in its publication, and Mr Asquith and Mt Lloyd George lacked vigilance and judgment in agreeing to ite publication.

[Yesterday the Chronicle raid: "The King's speech* w ill-inspired, and theory of civil war is nothing 1 more than the Unionist party cry. The speech will leave only one impression on Liberals. It is as if the Kin? had spoken of the Unionist party as we ind of the Liberals as they. Obviously the personal' character •■pf the speech makes ft qiMto unlike the ordinary document dictated bv Minister, and makes the impression still more painful. The least that oan be inferred is that outside official conversations the Kinp cannot be in the habit of talking familiarly with Liberals. Otherwise his illusion that the world of Tory ideas is the whole world would not be so naive.] The Westminster Gazette says that what happened this week should warn all parties that failure may land us not only into Irish difficulties, but difficulties affecting the whole kingdom. The responsible and sober-minded members of the Conference may be expected especially to bear in mind the supreme importance of not exposing the King to public controversy and therefore making any reasonable sacrifices to reach an agreed settlement. THE DANGER ZONE. BOTH SIDES "SPITTING FIRE. LONDON, July 23. A conference at Omagh of Nationalists of Tyronne, Fermanagh, and Deny City passed a resolution that at the risk of their Jives they will never consent to be separated from the Irish nation. Two thousand Ulster volunteers of MidTyrone battalion paraded and received rifles and bayonets. A company of Ulsjer volunteers was marching at Gleshey, Tyrone, when three shots were fired over their heads from the vicinity of a labourer's cottage. Mr A. J. Kettle, a leading figure in Parnell's day, in a letter to Freeman's journal, sa>6 he has given up hope of getting a» real Home Rule settlement from the Liberal party. Ireland has nearly done for the present with a "party of words" and must soon hook on to a "party of works" —the Tories. VIOLENT ATTACK ON THE KING. MR KIER HARDIETS LATEST. Received, July 24, 10.55 a.m. LONDON. July 23. Mr Keir Hardie (Socialist) made a violent attack on the King for associating himself with reactionary peers and rebellious Ulstermen.