THE ULSTER DRAMA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13394, 30 May 1914, Page 3

THE ULSTER DRAMA.

Sill E. CARSON'S ADMISSION. NATIONALISTS' OFFER. IPress Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.! LONDON, May 29. Mr T. P. O'Connor (Nationalist) states that the Nationalists are willing to give Ulster such strong political power as will make them masters of their own fate and armed against oppression in every form. Sir Edward Carson. - speaking at Mountain Ash. admitted that within five hours he had landed 35,000 rifles and three million rounds of ammunition in Ulster, but the Government- did not dare to punish them. He added: "The Home Rule Bill may become the law of the land, but it will never be the law of Ulster." If the Government imagined the third reading of the Bill was the last act in the drama, he could tell them it was only the first act of a gruesome tragedy.

The Daily Telegraph says the Government contemplates fixing the Ulster boundaries by religious census instead of county boundaries in ' the exclusion of Home Rule;