THE BURNING QUESTION.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 32, 14 March 1914, Page 7

THE BURNING QUESTION.

EXCLUSION OF ULSTER. THE NATIONALIST VIEWPOINT. By Cable. — Pre3B Association.- — Copyright. LONDON, March 13. The "Tablet," the Eoman Catholic weekly, states that Ireland has no use for a coerced or conquered Ulster, which would become an Irish Alsace. It would be impossible to control events at the end of the sexennium, and the Nationalists should make a virtue of necessity. Mr T: P. O'Connor declares that Ireland will jiever consent to perpetual exclusion. The. Nationalists would sooner lose the Bill and go into the wilderness for an6ther generation. The excluded counties must automatically , come under the jurisdiction of the new Parliament after the transition period. Mr Austen Chamberlain, speaking at West Birmingham, gave Mr Asquith credit for anxiety to prevent a calamity, but he could not expect Ulster to [ disband her organisation and forsake the method by which alone she had been able to secure a hearing. If tne scheme were passed into law, exclusion would \be the main issue at future elections. Every dish would be Irish stew, and scalding hot at that.