AUSTRALIAN OPPONENTS OF HOME RULE.
OPEN LETTER TO MR. ASQUITH
Sydney, April 29
An open letter to Mr. Asquith is. "being largely signed in the various States denying the statement that the people of Australia as a whole favoured Home Rule, and adding the belief that Home Rule would tend to weaken the Empire and be a permanent bar to Imperial federation.
It hopes Mr. Asquith will take a referendum on the subject; and concludes: "In ■ resisting such a policy, of injustice and. tyranny, the Unionists of Ireland have our whole-hearted sympathy and all such support as it might be possible to render." It is stated that already nearly 100,000 signatures have been obtained.
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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13456, 30 April 1914, Page 5
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114AUSTRALIAN OPPONENTS OF HOME RULE. Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13456, 30 April 1914, Page 5
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