IRELAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16115, 25 April 1918, Page 3

IRELAND.

NO CONSCRIPTION DAY IN DUBLIN. ULSTER STILL STANDS OUT. AGAINST ANY SETTLEMENT. (Received April 25, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, April 24. “No Conscription Day” parsed in orderly fashion The Roman Catholic population underwent many inconveniences in order to make an effective protest, including the closing of all public-houses, the non-delivery of bread and tho postponement of F undies town races, though the banks and Government offices were open. The Daily Chronicle raises the question of the exempting of all Irish agriculturists from conscription and urges that 1 i million acres more are under cultivation than in 1916 and all available labour is needed to reap the bumper food harvests. Sir Edward Carson, in a long letter to the Daily Telegraph, recapitulates the series of pledges by the present and late Governments that Homo Rule would not be enforced during the war period. Sir Edward Carson adds: “Mr. Lloyd George’s excuse is that any pledges may be scrapped as the war has lasted longer than expected. On the faith of these assurances thousands of loyal Ulstermen have joined the colours. Though Mr. Bonar Law pledged the Government not to legislate without a substantial agreement to which Ulster would be an assenting patty, Mr. Lloyd George’s proposed Bill will be based on a majority report from which the Ulsterites unanimously dissented.” Sir Edward Carson concludes: “I will not attempt to draw the moral.”