BROAD PRINCIPLE OFFERED FOR ACCEPTANCE.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13420, 18 March 1914, Page 5

BROAD PRINCIPLE OFFERED FOR ACCEPTANCE.

A BASIS OF CO-OPERATION.

(Received March 17, 10.35 p.m.)

London, March 17.

Mr Asquith's statement consisted of brief replies to questions held over from last week. He said that if the Unionists accepted the broad principle then it would be possible to work out the details with something like general cooperation. The Government were working out supplementary provisions, but a final determination on some points had not yet been reached. The Government were still anxious that the offer should be considered on its merits.

Lord Robert Cecil asked whether there was any precedent for any Government declining to give details of a proposal until it knew whether the Opposition would accept it? ;

Mr Asquith said he did not know of any precedent for a Government going as far as they were going;

The County Council at Cork, after a heated discussion, adopted a resolution by 13 votes to 9 repudiating Mr Asquith's compromise.

The "Daily Mail" says the Government discussed the question of the disposition of troops in Ulster, and intend to send troops there before the Horn© Rule Bill is passed.