HOME RULE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15937, 3 December 1913, Page 5

HOME RULE

DISQUIETING REPORT.

ENGLISH TROOPS' TOAST.

Prssj Association—r.y Telegraph—Copyright,

LONDON, December 1,

It is reported that the English battalion now in Ulster recently toasted Mr A. Bonar Law and Sir Edward Carson with enthusiasm.

MR O'BRIEN'S VIEWS. LONDON, December 2. (Received Dec. 2, at 10.40 p.m.) Mr William O'Brien states: "For some unexplained reason we were further from peace at Leeds than we were at Ladybank. Mr Asquith and Mr A. Bonar Law are the best assets for peace. It will be a tragedy if the means to secure peace can-i not be found."

CIVIL WAR ABSURD.

ULSTER BECOMING FAVOURABLE.

MR WILLIAM REDMOND INTERVIEWED.

FREMANTLE, December 2.

Mr William Redmond, M.P., arrived here by the German mail steamer. In the course of an interview ho said he anticipated that Irish Home Rule would bo an accomplished fact by June; He did not think there was any chance of Ulster being excluded from the Bill, and declared that the majority of the people of Ulster and also a majority of the Ulster representatives in the House of Commons favoured Home Rule. There was a strong and growing feeling amongst the people of Protestant Ulster in favour of Home Rule. Tho talk of civil war was absurd. There might be a little rioting, but it would be confined to the south-east corner of Ulster.