TRIBUTES IN PARLIAMENT.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14655, 8 March 1918, Page 6

TRIBUTES IN PARLIAMENT.

THE PREMIER'S PANEGYRIC

(Australian and N.Z, Cable Association)

(Received March 7, 10.15 p.m.)

London, March 6

Sjseaking in the Hoxt.se of Commons, Mr Liuyci George said that hn would %move the adjournment of tho House in *oTirieetton - with JMr -Redmond's death, by& there was urgent necessity to ncarry on the business. "There was no difference of opinion regarding,the ability, genius, oloquenee, judgment,. and dignity with which Mr Redmond advocated bis Irish policy, it was a tragedy that he should bo cut down before he achieved the great purpose of his life.

"When I saw him last," Mr Lloyd George continued, "he was a broken man. Death was on his face. His last words were a plea for concord between the two countries.''

Mr Asquith said Mr Redmond's death1 was an indescribable shock. Mr Redaaond was a great Parliamentarian and »; true patriot. Tho House, Ireland, Britain, and the whole Empire were impoverished by hirv loss.