HOME RULE QUESTION.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5726, 1 October 1914, Page 3

HOME RULE QUESTION.

UNIONIST BACKING. AN UNCONDITIONAL PLEDGE. London, September 29. Mr Bonar Law, Leader cf the Opposition, speaking at Belfast, said that if occasion arose the Unionists would support Ulster after the war in any steps deemed necessary to defend her rights. The pledge given in the Blenheim speech was conditional, but on behalf of the Unionists he now renewed it unconditionally, since advantage had been taken of Ulster's patriotism to place the Home Rule Act on the Statute Book. He did not believe that force would be necessary to secure Ulster's just claims.