HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 65, 17 November 1913, Page 5

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

o THE NATIONALISTS’ ATTITUDE. IBy Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, November 15. Mr John Redmond, M.P., leader of tlie Irish Nationalists, in a speech at Newcastle, said that the Nationalists would welcome a settlement by consent, and would consider any demand consistent with the principle of national self-government. The Marquis of Salisbury, speaking at Plymouth, said that the Unionists would bo glad to consider any pro-perly-devised measure for further extension of local government, but they would not give Ireland a Constitution by which it might become independent.

MR CHURCHILL’S SPEECH

(Received 10.20 a.m.)

London, November 16

At a large Liberal demonstration at Alexandra Palace, there were several minutes’ uproar caused Insult ragettes and friends of Larkin.

Mr Churchill said there was a strong opinion on both sides in favour of a settlement in Ireland by consent. There was a strong feeling that the Nationalists should receive the freedom, the means, and money to make self-government successful, while Protestant Ulster should somehow be satisfied and contorted, and the United Kingdom freed from oldworld hates. Mr Churchill concluded with a strong advocacy of land reform. THE NATIONAL UNION. Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables London, November 15. A conference of the Nationalist Unionists’ Association passed a resolution reaffirming its detestation of Home Rule, . and declaring that it viewed with deep alarm the danger of civil war ; also affirming a strong determination to support Ulster. A resolution was also carried condemning the Ministers concerned in the Marconi controversy. Mr J. L. Mnxse, editor of the National Review, declared that the Judges strongly resent Mr Isaacs’ appointment to the Lord Chief Justiceship.