HOME RULE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14235, 7 March 1914, Page 5

HOME RULE.

THE PROPOSED CONCESSIONS. CIVIL WAR AND BRITISH FINANCES. Fresa Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright LONDON, March 6. Significance is attached to Mr Devlin’s hurried visit to the Bishops of Raphoe and Derry. Mr Devlin is strongly opposed to the modification of the Bill. Mr T. P. O’Connor, in Reynolds’ Weekly, says it would not be candid to say that the Nationalists had not found it hard to agree to the concessions the Government is about to offer, and which they are only able to accept alter anxious and prolonged reflection, in the hope that they will Tiring peace. This is the last word' of the Nationalists. The Daily Telegraph says the Governor of the Bank of England conveyed the directors’ views to Mr Lloyd George that any civil turmoil in Ireland would seriously affect British finances. It is unusunj'for the bank to take this course unless its opinion is sought. THE APPEAL RIDICULED. CRITICISM OF SIGNATORIES. Received March 7. 7.15 a.m. LONDON, March 6. The public refuses to take seriously the appeal by Lord Roberts and other prominent men, issued on behalf of Ulster. It is pointed out that the signatories have wholly destroyed the force of the declaration by the insertion of a clause, that by the signing of the document no man pledged himself to take any particular action which his conscience and judgment did not approve. Referring to the signatories, the Daily Chronicle remarks that most of them are men very eminent in their different nojjy political spheres, but they show, not, for the first time, that singular puerility of political vision and intolerant political partisanship to which eminent non-politi-cal men are greatly prone. Such men, indeed, many of the same men, made precisely similar exhibitions four years ago over the Right Hon. Lloyd George’s Budget, which they denounced as the end of all things, yet most of them have contrived to Eve tolerably well ever since. OFFER OF EXCLUSION,. Received March 7, 9.10 a.m. LONDON. March 6. The, Radical press accepts as authoritative the statement that Wednesday’s meeting of the Cabinet decided to offer any. Irish county wishing to exclude itself from Home Rule, a three years’ exclusion by a plebiscite. ULSTER’S VOLUNTEERS. A SYSTEM OF ESPIONAGE. (Times and Svdnev Sun Services.) LONDON, March 6. An extensive system of espionage is . being maintained on the field manoeuvre* of the Ulster volunteer force. A big staff of special men from the investigation department of the Irish Constabulary is spread throughout Ulster, showing that the movement is causing concern to the Viceroy. -Eagerness to. sign ,T de c l ara t |on against the coercion of Ulster-has overtaxed the capacity of the existing organisation to cope therewith. Lord Southampton offered to obtain ten thou-- ' sand signatures.