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DISCUSSION IN HOUSE OF LORDS IjLSTER. AN]) THE AItMV. (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Rec. Feb. 14. 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 13. In the House of Lords, .Lord IjOihJoiiderry incidentally quoted Lord Wolseley's letter to the Duke of Cambridge in 1893, stating that if troops were brought into conflict, with Ulster, the loyalists would shake the foundations of the army. Lord Roberts followed with half-a-minute's speech, and declared that it was unthinkable that the British Army should bo called tn fight the Ulster Volunteers. It would be the Armv's ruin.
Lord C'nrzon pointed out that the Government had now confessed' that Home Rulo in its present form could not be placed on the Statute Book.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 14 February 1914, Page 5
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