HOME RULE.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13410, 6 March 1914, Page 5

HOME RULE.

THE CONFERENCE PROPOSAL,

ADVOCATED BY LORD DUNRAVEN

THE GOVERNMENT'S CONCESSIONS.

(Rccoived March 6, 0.10 a.m. London, March 5. Lord Dunraven, in a letter to the "Press,'' says a fair chance of feettloment is only ' obtainable by referring Mr Asqnith's proposals to a conference on the lines of Lord Loreburn's proposal. Coercion is impossible; arid the exclusion of Ulster is unthinjkable, while a general election would be user less a& a solution. / Lord Hugh Cecil, in a letterj*says the difficulty in the way of conference is insuperable. He draws an analogy between General Botha's action in South Africa, and possible happenings in Ireland ac creating two centres of

| sovereignty:^ Nobody will deny that the deportations .were altogether inde- ! fensible, and nobody can be blind to the outrage and scandal of the infliction of perpetual exile by a retrospective enactment. The true sovereignty lies with the South African and General Botha, and not with the British Crown. Such are the consequences of Home Rule. There is little doubt that... Mr. As-

quith's Home Rule proposals have Mr. Redmond's : concurrence, though' there are some Ministerialist fears of the attitude of the National Convention if it is called upon to sanction the changes.