GERMANY'S REPLY.
•SIR E. GRETC STATEMENT. undertaking too narrow. (Beceived August 5, 9.35 a.m.) ! LONDON, August •*. i TK THE COMMONS, SIR EDWARD GREY SAID THAT GREAT BRITAIN YESTERDAY GAVE FRANCE AN ASSURANCE OF HELP IF THE GERMAN NAVY ATTACKED IN THE NORTH SEA OR IN THE CHANNEL. GERMANY'S UNDERTAKING NOT TO ATTACK THE NORTH COAST OF' ERA NOR IF BRITAIN PJLEDG.KI)
HER ■' NEUTRALITY' WAS FAR TOO NARROW.
MR.REDMOND, AMID TREMENDOUS CHEERING, SAID THAT THE GOVERNMENT- MIGHT WITHDRAW THE TROOPS FROM IRELAND, WHICH ARMED CATHOLICS AND
ULSTERMEN WOULD PROTECT: THE HOUSE PASSED A BILL EMBODYING THE MORATORIUM. AND ALSO PROLONGING THE BANK HOLIDAY TILL TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.
THE HOLIDAY DOES NOT APPLY 'TO GENERAL INDUSTRY. LORD. LANSDOWNE AND MR BONAR LAW INTERVIEWED MR ASQUITH PRIOR TO THE CABINET MEETING, WHICH IB NOW SITTING.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11148, 5 August 1914, Page 1
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