ULSTERMAN'S CHALLENGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15374, 8 August 1913, Page 7

ULSTERMAN'S CHALLENGE.

SPEECH BY SIR E. CARSON/ FUNDS FOR HOME RULE. Sydney Sun Cable.—Copyright, ; ; " London, August 6.;; Speaking at Portrush last 'bight,/ Sir Edward Carson challenged the Government to arrest him. A warrant, he said, might:: be issued, but the authorities dared not execute it. He was -i prepared-, to attend at a few hours' notice, and would surrender ' at the behest of a warrant. i ; The committee ■■■?. of the 'United Irish League at Boston has cabled to Mr. John Redmond X (leader :of the Nationalist Party), undertaking to raise a sum of £9000 in "support of the Home Rule campaign. "LITTLE SHRAPNEL FOR ULSTER." A London cablegram,: dated July 31, states:—"The Government is watching with undisguised anxiety; the -. movements of Sir Edward Carson and his supporters, who, having finished their Parliamentary labours for the present season, have gone to Ulster to perfect the organisation = of resistance to Home Rule. .In dealing with a statement by the Earl, of ClonmeU that a little shrapnel would soon drive the Ulster crowd back, the Earl of ClanwilHam, speaking at- - Ballynahinch, said : ' The first shot fired here by order, of his Majesty's Government against 1 the loyal men and women of Ulster- may'light the torch of civil war, which "will not Tie easily quenched. : Civil war is very contagious. You cannot have civil waif in Ulster without civil ; war •'; in., England. Those responsible will be very ill-advised if they consider that Ulster's opposition can be dealt with in this manner, I£ civil war results, the Government and sup-, porters will be swept into an abyss of social and political infamy for committing an act which is the most atrocious conceivable, and which will stink in the nostrils of generations to come.' '