IRISH HOME RULE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 13, 13 May 1912, Page 5

IRISH HOME RULE.

FRANK CRITICISM BY SIR EDWRAD CARSON. THE ARMY ENDANGERED. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, May 11. Sir Edward Carson, speaking at the Nineteen Hundred Club, declared that no compromise was possible on the Home Rule Bill. He never indulged in brag, but if the Home Rule Bil! passed and Irish loyalty was coerced at the point of the bayonet it would be the worst possible thing for the army, and dangerous for the Empire. A HUNDRED AMENDMENTS. (Received 13, 8.50 a.m.) London, May 12. There will he a hundred amendments to the Home Rule Bill moved in the House of Commons, including the urging of postponement until after the general election, adoption of the referendum, exclusion of Ulster, ami the payment of members. Mr lire, speaking at Cambridge, said the dividing, line between the two great political parties was more clearly defined to-day than ever he remembered. The Insurance Bill was not popular at present, but that was a peculiarity of all reforms. All danger of Ireland's separation had vanished.

Mr Runciman, at Liverpool, said Britain had made up its mind concerning Home Rule. The feeling against it was mild and half asleep. The second reading showed there was a clear British majority of -'sl in favour of Home Rule, and that was an under estimate of the country's feeling. The disestablishment of Wales came first in order of precedence, but English disestablishment must follow when the Liberals were able to deal with it.