"A DAMNABLE PLOT."

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 61, 18 April 1914, Page 9

"A DAMNABLE PLOT."

TO PROVOKE ULSTER.

SIR E. CARSON AND THE VOLUNTEERS.

t}y Cahle.— Preen Asxeciati on. — Copyrxaht. LONDON, April 17.;

Sir Edward Carson, addressing volunteers at Londonderry, said that the. day the Government attempted to coerce Ulster by force they would enter upon a campaign lasting for years, if necessary. It was his express intention to unravel in the House of Commons a damnable plot to provoke Ulster. The Cabinet was a Ministry of cowardice and infamy. He urged the Ulster Volunteers to be prepared for any emergency. LORD ROBERTS'S POSITION. A RUMOUR DENIED. Interrogated in the House of Commons," Mr Asquitli denied that Lord Roberts had threatened to resign his field-marshalship unless Brigadier-Gen-era J Gough 's demands were conceded. Mr Asquith did not see sufficient grounds for holding a suggested judicial enquiry into recent events in Ulster.

Mr Asquith, replying' to a question in .the House of Commons, stated that no official notification had been given of the Government's repudiation of the written assurance to BrigadierGeneral Gough.

HELP FROM MELBOURNE

"MORAL AND MATERIAL."

MELBOURNE, April 17. The following cablegram has been dispatched to Sir Edward Carson: — "Overflowing meeting of citizens representing eighty thousand petitioners passed with great enthusiasm resolutions against the Home Rule Bill and the coercion of Ulster, and pledged themselves to moral and material support of Ulster."