HOME RULE CRISIS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4701, 1 December 1913, Page 5

HOME RULE CRISIS.

UNIONISTS’ DEFIANCE.

WILL BACK UP ULSTER. BONAR LAW’S CHALLENGE.

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j London, Last Night. I Air Bonar Law. Leader of the Op* I sition, had a tremendous ovation from four thousand people in the Theatre Royal., Dublin, each person waving a Union Jack. An overflow 7 meet- ! ing was necessary. ! Mr Bonar Law .said Afr Asquith, the ' Prime Minister, had accepted Mr J. Redmond’s orders for “Full steam 7 ahead.” The Unionists, therefore, ; were prepared to meet him and heat ! him. The meeting received tho declaration with cheers, the company standing and waving handkerchiefs. I Proceeding, Mr Bonar Law intor- ! preted the contrast between the LadyI bank and Leeds speeches. He said | he had written evidence which would ; damn the Government for evermore, if disclosed. Referring to Air Llovd | George’s admission that the Insurance I Bill was forced through when he knew j that if it had been referred to the people it would have been rejected. Afr Bonar Law asked whether the Government was doing the same with Home Rule. The Government had j imprisoned Larkin to please the Nationalists and had to release him to please the English Socialists. If the ; Government really believed itself en- ; titled to pass a release Bill it showed j its criminal weakness in allowing the ; Ulster organisation to continue. It j was aware that any attempt to arrest | Sr Edward Carson would show how j deeply in earnest Ulster was. PerI haps, he said, he was endangering Sir i Edward Carson’s liberty without the j risk of his own. He was ready to give j the Government the right to prosecute ; him also. The Unionists were still j ready to consider any proposal to | avert civil war. He thought Afr Asquith desired, and saw. a prospect of j settlement, but the Leeds speech im- ! plied that Air Redmond had given his orders. If the Government attempted to coerce Ulster before an election Ulster would do wel lto resist, and the Unionists would support tlieir resists ance. His candid opinion was that the Government intended to bluff until the last and then climb down. There were turbulent scenes outside. A woman was sent to the hospital with a broken nose from a bullet wound. Tile crowd heat a man who was leaving the theatre. They dragged him off a trnmear and further illtleak'd him. The police prevented - another crowd largely composed of ' students. from anproaching the theatre. The students thereupon marched to Rutland Square and smashed the Catholic Cemeteries Comj mittee’s windows, mistaking them for j the Orange Lodge’s, next door. LATEST LIBERAL SCANDAL. London. La st Night. The National Review publishes reI markable disclosures. It alleges that the Radical party invested £66.000 in March and April. 1911. through Fenner. the sharebroker, apparently in anticipation of the Coronation honours. By July. 1912. Fenner had stolen £700.000. but was allowed to remain in business until he had •squandered £140.000. LLOYD GEORGE S LATEST. “OUT TO FEED THE HUNGRY.” (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) London, This Day. Mr Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Holloway to delegates from the Liberal Associations. said that Mr Bonar Law’s speech was an old Torv trick. Whenever the people were discontented the Tories raised another topic. The land question was being confused with tho Ulster issue. When the Tories pretended that they were out to shed their blood for the sake of religious freedom and peace, they were guilty of nauseous hypocrisy. If fighting was begun it would not be all on one side.

He concluded with references to the leasehold system and housing. The Tories, he said, were out to catch, pluck and gull. The Liberals were ont to feed the hungry.

( THE TORIES’ WET DOG. (Received this day at 9 a.m.) London. This Day. . Remarkable precautions were taken with success to protect Air Lloyd (Jeorge from the suffragettes at Holloway. He aroused loud laughter by describing Sir Edward Carson as a wet dog in the Tory drawing-room, who had been dropped in the Boyne, and who was miserable himself and a menace to everyone else. The Opposition was now begging the Liberals to give a biscuit to lure the dog away till he was dry.