Groans and Cheers.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 80, 25 July 1914, Page 5

Groans and Cheers.

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

THE PALACE CONFERENCE BRITAIN'S, POPULAR PREMIER. [By JKleotrio Telegraph—Copyright! Times and Sydney Sun, Services. London, tfuly 24.

Crowds gathered at Buckingham Palace to watch the arrival and departure of the members of the conference, who were greeted v. uh a mixture of groans and, cheers. Mr Asquith, accompanied by his daughter, was enthusiastically received. The police were compelled to force a passage for the motor-car through the cheering cro>vJ. PRAISE FOR THE KING. ' The Times, in a leader, says that the King made a plain, common-seise, and entirely acciirate statament. Tiieio was no partisan spirit - : n this simple definition of an extremely manifest fact, and the Times trusts that there will be no reprehensible criticism of f;he Sovereign, who has dono, and is manfully and anxiously trying to do the duties devolving upon inn as the ruler not of these islands, but also of a world-wide Empire, which watched anxiously his attitude in a moment of extreme crisis. CONFERENCE ITEMS, [United Press Association.] London, July 24. The King gave an audience to Mr Asquith after yesterday's sitting. It ia understood that the delegates declined to accept the Spealeer's suggestion to exclude Tyrone for two years and afterwards ballot for or against exclusion. The Irish Guards were paraded at Wellington Barracks. Colonel Morris stated that he was sorry that soldiers in uniform should give a political demonstration. AN APPEAL TO ULSTER. Mr Horace Plunkett, in a pamphlet, appeals to Ulster to give Home Rule a chance. "I can say," he says, "with absolute certainty that if Ulster will throw in her lot with Ireland* she will find herself received with generous enthusiasm, which will, lust because it is founded on respect." The Chronicle says Mr Asquith It, perfectly aware of the reason .why the inexcusable words were published. It was not because they wore innocent, but because he was careless. This sort of leadership was inadequate. It was not the first time that Ministerial carelessness had allowed an inexcusable phase to appear. Mr Asquith'* own presence at the War Office might remind him of that. The War Office has issued an* order' prohibiting soldiers from associating with the Ulster and Nationalist volunteers.

Writing to the Woolston Women Unionist Association in Hampshire, Sir Edward Carson says the position i* so critical that any day may see u Catastrophe. The Government is apparently content to drift until civil war breaks out. The Lord Mayor of Dublin said the people recognised the possibility of the failure of Home Rule, owing to the arrogance of Ulster. "If we must have civil war, in God's name let it cornel" . A NEWSPAPER WAR. ' \ (Received 9.5 a.m.) .London, July 24. The Western Daily News, Liverpool Post, and several Liberal provincial papers censure the London Radical press for attacking the King respecting the conference and the phase of civil war.