IRISH NEGOTIATIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16283, 17 July 1916, Page 4

IRISH NEGOTIATIONS .

MR. REDMOND'S VIEWS. REPLY TO LORD LAXSDOWXE, Bt Telecranh—Fress Association—Copyright Australian and N'Z Cable Association. Tteceived 7 p.re * LONDON, Jul- l; Ms. John Redmond, leader r.f th« Nationalist Party, replying to the M ar . quis of Lansdowne's letter resardir.- th* exclusion of Ulster, .-ays the matter can : only be cleared by the production of tb» j Government's amending Bill. He is loth ito believe that Cabinet favours naked ! coercion. I , The Mai quis ..f I.a-.-d.-.wn?. in a letter .to the newspaper? legardinz a sr.eech a the Irish situation, to which Mr. .lorn Redmond took exception, said: "Mv statement regarding the permanent character of certain provisions o: the amending . Bill was not intended 1 . go bevond the j Prime Minister's declaration in the Hon«« of Commons on July 10. that the union of the six counties with the rest of Ireland . could not be brought about without tha freewill consent of the excluded areas'" | PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. ■I i •j A HOSTILE MANIFESTO. i AGITATION THREATENED. j LONDON. July 14. i Mr Richard Jones, for manv rears - j identified with • ivic life in Dublin," and ; hitherto a staunch supporter of the j Nationalist Party, has issued a manifesto I urging the formation of an Irish Patrictiu t. ■ Union. He threatens to exhaust every - j constitutional resource to render Mr. Red- - mond's Provisional Government impossible ! and dec-lares that the agitations of past » years will be as nothing to the storm - ; that will be raised. 1 i The manifesto add? :—" If Mr. Redmond -and Mr. Asquith persist in sowing the 1 wind we will leave them to reap the J whirlwind." Mr. Jones challenges the six r, Dublin members of the House of Com--1 , mons to resign and seek re-election, pro- .- ' mising that they will be swept into 3 oblivion.