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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11TH, 1914.

TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.

Ithronum KEUTHE'S AGENCY)

PREMIER'S HOME RULE STATEMENT.

THROUGH REUTER 6 AGENCY,

devise a settlement on those lines. It was thede of the proposals of what he called, Home Rule within Home Rule that, as regards the administration of MEMORABLE GATHERING IN THE Government otherwise decided, be entirely Ulster, it could, until the Imperial *COMMONS.

exempt from the Executive and Adminis trative authority of the Irish Parliament in Dublin. It was not such a difficult problem as it seemed. The police, land and everything connected with Land Purchas, were under the Bill as it stood the vine and did not pass within The

-HOME-RULE WITHIN HOME RULE.”

LONDON, March 10th. The House of Commons was even more orowded yesterday than when the Home

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PRESS COMMENTS.

Unionist, Press generally takes Sir Edward Carson's standpoint that the six years limit is impracticable

Daily Graphic declare that Mr. Asquith's The Times, Daily Mail, Standard, and offer is doomed to failure unless he abandons the time-limit

LDER POSTASIATISCHER LLOYD' SERVICE

CHINA SERVICE.

A REBEL LEADER SHOT.

PEXING, March 10th, The Military Resident at Kiria has

Asquith was simply maneuvring for Ching, elected by the rebels to be Tutuh The Morning Post anys that Mr.telegraphed to the Cabinet that Chao Yu position in view of the lacvitable appeal of Manchuria, was apprehended by to the country by

The Daily Telegrape declares that Mr. Brigadier General Pei Chi Sun and heater by the Ulstermen He must go wirds shot mcording to martial law. further, or yield to the demand for a The Resident asks for the promotion of Brastige has been shattered at the the tw

The Daily News says that the Govern eleventh hour by the concession, ment's generosity, has exceeded expecta

Law, the Premier said they would come in In reply to a question from Mr. Bonar after a years unless the Imperial Government otherwise determined He emphasised that the exeluted areas dur representation in the House of Commons ing these six years would continue their exactly do now. They should continue as far un possible the administration as it was now. The Irish Executive would have no right of entry in the excluded ares. There ought not to be, and would not be any difficilly regarding the Police or Land Purchase, for they were reserved Special provisions would have to be education and local government, it made for the remainder Thero would be excluded area, be administered by some administration, which would bontinue, s raven, and other prominent members of local authority, while as regards the now under the Home Office Local the Hous

of Lords were conspicuous factory and workshops administration, by the creation of some Administrative government would be dealt with locally the Clock. Lord Stamfordham, the that would remain as it was st present Board, and as regards all their adinitions.It is the thick, not the thin, end of

under the Secretary of State at Whitehall.trative matters the Imperial Minister King's

s Private Secretary, was in the His proposal regarding the legislation who, under the Bill, would remain in the Peors Gallery

was, though it met with little support House of Commons to answer for all Mr. Asquith, on entering, was given from any quarter, that Ulster should reserved services regarding the rest of an ovation by the Ministerialists, Mr.sturu, like the rest of Ireland, repre Ireland, would also be responsible for

province of the Irish Executive.

Rulo Bill itself was introduced, there As regards what was left, name Vices Asquith Ims confessed that be has been Captain Chao Cheng Chang, and after-

being no vacant space anywhore,

Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Dunscomed to him, it might very well, in the no difficulty about factory and workshop General Election. The Government the two officers

the exclusion wedge. If adopted, Irish unity will be severely endangered; if rejected, the country will expect the Government to no longer temporise, but severely repress rebellion.

CHINESE "ARMY AUTUMN

AMANŒUVRES,

INTIMATIONS

PUBLIC OPINION

PUTS JOHN HAIG'S WHISKIES PERING, March 10th.

Staff have both recommended to the The Ministry of War and the General

AT THE TOP RECOGNIZED EVERY-

Cabinet that the Autumn manœuvres of WHERE AS THE HIGHEST QUALITIES Inner Mongolia, near Kalgan, the costs OF WHISKIES IT IS POSSIBLE TO

Bonar Law and Sir Edward Carson being sentatives to both the Upper and Lower: every detail of administration in Ulster The Dally Chronicle expresses its the troops should this year take place in

equsly cordially received by the Oppost

tion.

on

The Prime Minister was loudly cheered

rising to m

make his promised statement on the Irish situation on the second reading of the Home Rulo Bill He said that those who supported the measure in all its stages were as convinced as ever they were of the soundness of its principles and its machinery. (Cheers.) They regarded it as an attempt at once sincere and con siderate to base upon a solid foundation the fabric of Irish self-government, and they believed that if it were placed on the Statute hook to-morrow as it stood its practical operation would involve no mjustice or oppression, either to classes or individuals, in Ireland. (Cheers.) He emphasised that if he came with sugges tions, which, if accepted, would require substantial additions to the Supplement ary provisions to their plan, it was not because they were running away from it (cheers)--but because, above all things, the changes which they believed to be inevitable in the Government of Ireland should start under conditions seuring from the first the best chance of ultimate success. (Hear, hear. What wore the dangers which lay ahead which at was the duty of statesmanship, if possible, to avert 1

WHAT SETTLEMENT BY CONSENT INVOLVES.

Sir Edward Card: Will yo say anything about the Judiciary (

Carson

a that could be arranged.

Mr. Asquith affirmed that if necessary certainly have tomchody who would They must correspond to the Attorney General in the rent of Ireland and in an excluded area County Court Judges presented no High Court he was not at all sure that it difficulty, but as regards Judges of the would be the desire of an excluded area that procedure should cease and nothing be substituted for it. That was a point whereon he was quite ready and indeed anxious to come to agreciment. FINANCIAL MATTERS.

House of the Irish Legislature, but when any law was passed by these House respecting Ulster, and the majority of the law, it should not come into force Ulster's representatives were opposed to unul it had received the sanction of the Imperial Government

O That was going a much longer way than many people expected, or desired (Cheers.) comply meeting the question of But it had the advantage of posture administrative oppression, and it alad started Ireland with a fully repre- sattutive Irish Parliament, and preserved the Imperial Government'e veto regarding legislation which might injuriously affect the Ulster Minority. He was not going to press that suggestion now, although he Turning to the rest of Ireland, when It had the serious drawback of not comments, both financial and administrative parted from it with regret and reluctance these counties had been excluded, adjust. mending itself to any of the parties in the application of the Bil would be concerned, (Laughter.)

come necessary; but he would not go into that the chances of settlement, depended. details because it was not on these points Some amount of inancial and adminis scheme of oxclusion, total or partial, trative adjustment was necessary in every manent or provisional. He would not commit himself to any cut and dried scheme now. If the broad principles could work out the details with something like by agreed upon they could afterwards general co-operation.

Ireland should, in the first instance, be The second road was that the whole of excluded both for Legislative and Execu the option should be given after a lapse tive purposes in the Bill as it stood, but of a certain time to the Ulster counties to remove themselves from the jurisdic

ace of the Irish Legislature and position. That was a proposal which they Executive, and revert to their present had considered before it was put forward Plunkett There, again, the proposal had on the high authority of Sir Horace

THE PRICE OF PEACE. the great merit of starting from the proposals which he had put forward as He had endeavoured to explain the beginning with a fully representative the price of peace. Cheers) No one, he Parliament for All Ireland would in a had any love for exclusion for its own Irish Legislature. • A

practical

working

believed, either in Ireland or in England, very few years show whether the appre hensions of Ulster were well-founded. If sake or upon its own merits. He did not they were not, things could go on as they fit the proposals which he had out wore. If the tears were well-founded, the lined to be received with enthusiasm in Minority had a Constitutional door of any quarter, but he did ask for them deli

berate escape. This also was an excellent plan, force and dispassionate consideration if it could be made acceptable, but he was British, they involved at least. B. postpone On the one hand, if the Home Rulo Bill afraid it could not

ment of complete and symmetrical were carried, there was a prospect of Both these roads being blocked, they system of self-government To Unionists acute dissension, even of civil strife proceeded to explore a third way which they implied necessarily an unwelcome (Opposition cheers) On the other hand, went popularly by the name of exclu acceptance of an Irish Legislature and if at that stage the Home Rule Bill were azon. The objections to exclusion were, Executive in Dublin. On the other hand to be shipwrecked or permanently that, starting with an Irish Legislature mutilated, or indefinitely postponed, there not fully representative, they were run prospect of an undivided Ireland, brought they would hold out for Home Rulers the was in Ireland as a whole as loust an sing the risk of stereotyping the in time to its full measure of develop equally formidable outlook. (Cheons.) traditions inherited from the past, which mont, as he might hope and believe, not The hazards in either event were such as all hoped, and many believed, the future by coercion but by consent; while to to warrant in all quarters, not indeed a would softon, and in time obliterate. Ulsterinen they offered an absolutely free surrender of principle, but an approach None were more alive than he was to the choice, with a certainty that their status which could lead to agreement and force of these objections. The Unionists, could not be changed without the assent Bettlement, and it was obvious that there of course, could get rid of the difficulties of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Buch a of exclusion by a simple denial of Home was no use blinking the facts settlement would involve in the first place Rule and the Home Rulers could get rid Cheers.) He saw no road to an agreed settlement wherein the balance of give acceptance by the Opposition of a Home of them if they were ready to start Home and take was likely to be more evenly Bagislature and Executive in Rule in an atmosphere of disea ane adjusted. If there was one lesson which Dublin, and, on the other hand, on the tumult. But it appeared to him that the was more clearly than another taught by Ministerial side, of some form of special Unionists and Home Rulers could find the history of the ancient Kingdom of treatment for Ulster. It was to meet that in some form of provisional exclusion a Britain it was that the union of law and treatment for carly in less autumn media net one app tuation of the liberty had its source, and, in moments of person of great authority suggested the Exclusion could only be put forward, not opreme urgency, or nonton and

the application force had sanction, in project of a Conference. His opinion was as a final solution, but as an expedient ocmmon responsibilities, then, and had not been modified since, which might pave the way in time to a that round-table confere parties and final settlement ENT'S PROPOSALA

sentatives of the different views, without anything in the nature of a preliminary basis for agreement, would have tended rather to frustrate than advance the end in view,

MAGA PO THE CONDITIONE.

Mr. Asquith proceeded to emphasise the conditions laid down in his speech at Ladybank, and he reiterated, firstly, that nothing must interfere with the setting up in Dublin of a subordinate Irish Legislature, with an Executive responsible thereto. (Cheera.)

Secondly, nothing was to be done toward erecting a permanent bar to Irish

THE GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS. Then they came to the practical ques on as to how far exclusion could be adopted without violating the principles of either side. They had come to the con- clusion that the only practical way was to allow the Ulster counties themselves to determine whether they desired to be ex- cluded. His plan was that a county in the Province of Ulster should be excluded for a certain period, if, on a poll being taken of the Parliamentary electors of the county before the Bill came into opera tion, a bare majority favoured exclusion He said a pall would be taken in a county if requisition were presented, signed by one-tenth of the electors. It would have to be presented within three months of the date of the passing of the Home Rule

to be ready to sacrifice much of

opinion that the time-limit is not a very material point,

MR. REDMOND TO SPEAK FOR

THE NATIONALISTS The Nationalist members of the House of Commons have unanimously agreed that Mr. John Redmond should express their views in the debate on the proposals

LORD MILNER NOT SATISFIED. regarding Mr. Asquith's statement, says Lord Milner, in a letter to The Times that the statement makes it imperative for the signatories to the recent Covenant to redouble their appeal to the nation to make it clear to the forces driving Mr. yet be made Asquith that a more generous offer must AN ULSTER AMBULANCE CORPS

to amount to no more than 400,000 Tls.

CHINA AND MILITARY STRATEGY,

PERING, March 10th.

A Scciety for the study of Military

BUT

OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE

Strategy has been formed at Feking. The Vice-President, Li Yuan Bung and Tse

the Presidents of the Society, while Lient H. Ton, former Tutah of Yunnan, will be

Colonel Brisaaud, Military Adviser to Yuan Shih-kai, will be the Manager Seventy higher officers are members.

AVIATION IN PEKING.

PERING, March 10th. Four Chinese military aviatora started

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REPORTED BRITISH DEMAND FOR CHS. J. GAUPP

While Mr Asquith was making hie dares the Ulster Women's Association, this morning at 9 o'clock from Poking statement Lady Londonderry, as Presi in a South Kenalaston drawing-room, and arrived at Pastingtu at 10.20. formally accepted a fully-equippod Ambulanc: Corus, formed in London for service with Ulster, and numbering 150. The Surgeon Commanding. Sir A F Fripp, presided over the gathering.

PROBABILITIES OF A GENERAL ELECTION.

SIGNIFICANT. RISE IN INBURANCE,

LONDON, March 10th. The insurance at Lloyds against General Election before the 30th June his risen from fifteen to thirty quinens within a week.

SUFFRAGETTES DECLARE WAR ON SIE EDWARD CARSON.

· LONDON, Murch 10th. Suffragettes have declared war on Sit Edward Cursort, considering as unsatis factory the interview be accorded the of his house in London since Thursday women yesterday who waited at the door. last

THE MARCONI SHARE DEAL

AJUDICIAL COMMITTEE:

Losnos, March 10th. The Marquis of Lansdowne, in moving

both sides of the House desired - his appointment.

the appointment of the Committed to enquire into Lord Murray's concern in the Marconi share transactions, said that Lord Loreburn (the former Lord Chan- cailor) had joined on condition that the charges against Lord Murray were specifie tinies in which they ought, all of them should be limited to these The methods There were and formulated, and that the inquiry

prejudice, of prepossession, of solid and deeply of the Committee would be judicial, and cherished aims and ideals for the para mount good of the whole. If they had been the pioneers of popular Government it was because the British people were keen, tenacious, combative and self-reliant They had learnt, in the stress of a con troversy most acute and apparently irreconcilable, to rement one another and renounce the falsehood of extremes Mr. Asquith concluded by saying: This is a testing case; the best traditions of the past, no less than the undisclosed and fateful issues of the future, appeal to us to-day with imperious accents to pursue if we can, the way of unity and of peace (Loud Ministerial and Nationalist cheere)

THE DEBATE.

Thirdly, while the importance of the extension of the principle of devolution in other parts of the United Kingdom was Bill. Fersons entitled to vote were those Sir Edward Carson frankly admitted fully recognised, the claim of Ireland was who were entitled to vote at Parlia that some advance had been made He elections. The questions put asserted that if the Government would prior a point of urgency,

of

A RAILWAY CONCESSION.

PEKING, March 10th.

A report in the Peking Ji Pao saya that Great Britain demands, in view of

& CO.,

the privileges granted to the Japanese inWATCHMAKERS

the matter of the Hanyshping Works, a concession to sonstruct a railway from Nanking to Changsha,

A POOR MAN

PEKING, March 10th: Chao Ping Chuen died a poor man. His only property was his house at Trou- tair. President Yuan Shih-kai has under- taken to educate his adopted son.

EUROPEAN SERVICE.

AN AUSTRO-MONTENEGRIN FRONTIER INCIDENT

BERLIN, March 9th.

An Austro-Montenegrin _____ frontier incident has taken place. Four Montene- gria frontier Bentries were shot by Austrians, Diplomatic arrangement of

the case has commenced,

A FRENCH REPORT CONTRADICTED.

BERLIN, March 9th. - The report of the Paris T'emps, that Mr.

Foreign Secretary, Herr v. Jagow, Serbeje had requested the German

cause a rectification of the article pub- lished by the Cologne - Gazette on the

Russian armaments, is an invention, M Lord Crewe still regarded the Com Serbejey spoke about the article, but mittee as unnecessary. Nevertheless he made a official request for its contradic agreed that it should be constituted as tion. strongly judicially as possible. He did not object therefore to the appointment of Loid Loteburn.

LEVER BROTHERS ISSUE £1,000,000

PREFERENCE SHARES.

LONDON, March 10th. Messrs. Lover Brothers, the famous ecap firm, has issued £1,000,000 in £1 Pre ferenca ahares, at a price of 21/-. The issue has been largely over-subscribed.

THE LATE MAJOR OHLSON.

ITALIAN CABINET RESIGNS.

BERLIN, March 9th,

8g. Giolitti's Cabinet has resigned. Sig. Salandre is mentioned by the Prese as the likely successor of Sig. Giolitti.

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ITALIAN HOSPITALS CLOSED.

TEHERAN, March 10thesi

CONSEQUENT GENEHAL STRIKES - The Regent and the Government of Persia are each giving £1,000 to the

BERLIN, March 9th widow of Major Ohlson, the Swedish

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29:18noitation for an interchange or would be « Are you in favour of the ex-remove the time limit he would call B WIDOW GENEROUSLY TREATED BY-PERSLANG.

views and suggestions was cordially and clusion of your county from the Govern- Ulster Convention to consider the pro- loyally accepted by the leaders of the meat of Ireland Act of 1916 for a period posals, but not otherwi

years and Or are you against auch Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, in the course Opposition. The conversations with Mr excusion 1 4 poll would be taken by of his remarks said-Let us have peace Boner Law and Sir Edward Carson were ballet, as in the case of Parliamentary if we can. If we cannot, let us have Home rightly, he thought, carried on under the elections. If the poll resulted in favour Bule. He added that the Labourites did a seal of confidence, which remained, and of exclusion, the county would be nut wish for a General Election until the

the believed would remain, unbroken. It automatically excluded for a prescribed Bill had passed

must not be inferred that any proposal period. In speaking of “county,'' he Mr. Tin Healy said he would rather to which he would allude had been either would include as separate counties the have no Bill than one with the proposed submitted or rejected in the course of boroughs of Belfast and Londonderry. He modifications, those conversations. Mr. Bonar Law and did not believe they could select a more

The debate was then adjourned Sir Edward Carson, however, would practical area than a county The. agree that the conversations, although Government, after much consideration; they did not result in even in approach thought that the period of such exclusion to an agreement, yet made those parti should he six years from the first meeting elpating realise more fully, perhaps, and of the Irish Legislatura in Dublin more sympathetically the difficulties that had to be encountered by those honestly desiring a settlement. They were dificul es not imaginary, but substantial indeed inherent in the conditions of this anexampled situation. By far the most serious of the difficulties was the question of Ulster,REA

THE THILEE ROADR TO BETTLEMENT.

Sir Edward Carson interjected What happens at the end of six years 1 _____

Mr. Asquith replied that they had taken six years to ensure that before the period of exclusion came to an end there should be ample time to test hy experience, the actual working of the Irish Parliament, (Continuing, be said they were sure also that before the period of exclusion ended there would be a certain opportunity for the electors of the United Kingdom to pronounce whether or not exclusion should come to an end. (Cheers.)

The Government had tried honestly and seriously to meet that difficulty bthree different roads. There was an expedient which he confessed com

Mr. Asquith showed by examples that minded itself much to his judgment, and there must be two General Elections before it was called, Home Rule within Rome the period of exclusion expired.” The Rule He personally had spent a great believed that that was a fair and equitable deal of time and labour in trying to arrangement. (Cheers.)

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RUSSIAN PRINCE'S BUDDEN DEATH.

BEELIN March 9th Prince Lieven, the Chief of Staff of the Russian Admiralty, died of heart failure in & railway train near Nizza

THE RUSSIAN PERILY

BERLIN, March 9th,

A leader in the Berliner Tageblatt, probably from the pen of Count Monts, a former diplomat, warns the nation against, the Russion Peril

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