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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8681, 14 March 1914, Page 5

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ULSTER PROPOSALS PREMIER TO MAKE STATEMENT ON MONDAY. By Telegraph—Press Aasoclallon— Copyright LONDON, March 12. Mr Asquith, the Prime Minister, speaking in the House of Commons, asked members to postpone a number of questions as to details regarding the Ulster proposals. He promised to make a general statement on the subject on Monday next. MESSAGE FROM SIR JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, “ALL SHOULD DO THEIR PART.” ‘ Times” and Sydney "Sun” Services. LONDON, March 12. Mr Joseph Chamberlain has telegraphed from South France hoping that the Ulster covenant,will be largely signed. “At this critical period of our history,” he says, “all should do their part.”

AN IRISH ALSACE. NO CONSENT TO PERPETUAL EXCLUSION. " IRISH STEW, SCALDING HOT.” By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received March 13, 9.23 p.m.)' LONDON, March 13. The “ Tablet ” says Ireland has no use for a. coerced, and conquered Ulster which would become an Irish Alsace. It would be impossible to control events at the end of six years. The Nationalists should make a virtue of necessity. Mr T. P. O’Connor declares that Ireland will never consent to the perpetual exclusion of Ulster. She would sooner lose the bill, and go into the wilderness for another generation. The idea of temporary exclusion is equivalent to the .bill’s provisions regarding reserved services. The excluded counties must automatically come under the jurisdiction of the new Parliament after the transition period. Mr Austen Chamberlain, at West Birmingham, said he gave Mr Asquith credit for anxiety to prevent calamities, but he could not expect Ulster to disband her organisation and forsake the method by which alone she had been able to secure a hearing. If the scheme passed into law, exclusion would be the main issue of future elections. Every dish would be Irish stew, and scalding hot at that.