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PRIME MINISTER'S SPEECH AT LADYBANK.

ANXIOUS FOR PEACE, BUT MUST BE PEACE WITH HONOUR.

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London, Received April 5.

A meeting in the village as sembly-room opened the formal business, including the adoption of the Premier us the Liberal candidate..

Mr. Asquith, his wife, and daughter were given a rousing reception.

Sir James Scott, presided and welcomed Mr.. Asquith ne "the greatest Parliamentarian they had known," (Cheers.)

THE SPEECH.

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(Router's Service To The" "Telegraph."};} force nor plausibility in the theory loyal co-operation, if they should Mr. F. D. Acland. M.P., at

Sir James Boott, who presided, that the electors' were left in the allow comparatively trivial Enfield, said that the attempt to

London, Received April's. at Ladybank, welcomed the Pre- dark regarding the Government's differences upon issues not vital use the Army for political pur

Reater's correspondent at St mier as the greatest Farliamen intention to take up Home Rule. to divide the force which, united, poses had been defeated. The Johns reports that the Bellaven- tarian they had ever known. His supposed silence on that to was irresistible, (Cheers.) Government would not permit ture has arrived, with fifty A great Unionist demonstration pic was a favourite theme of the Mr. Asquith concluded by the Army to discriminate politi surtivore and sixty nine dead took place in Hyde Park on Leader of the Opposition (Mr. saying that hated himself cally..

The Newfoundland's crew aboard Saturday afternoon to prolaet

against the crersion of Ulster.

The death is announced of the

UNIONIST

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establishing a League of British went blind a day after the arrested.

Premter in London.

a

Mr. Hobhouse, speaking

the dead in groups and planted Mr. Asquith at Ladybank, flags above them for the steamer strongly denied the "ridiculous

of

Mr. Arquilh made an import genuine misunderstandinge and ant speech at Lady bank, and honest mistakes, but in his de received an ovation when he liberate opinion there had been Bonar Law). He quoted from unreservedly in their hande as Mr. John Ward, M.P., speaking informed Reuter that Tuesday strongly denied the "ridiculous nothing in any stage or in any his speech at St. Andrew's (East their candidate for the ninth time, in the East End, described as morning opened fair, but the

on that the Government had quarter which threw the least Fife) on the 7th December, 1910. He did not know whether they Cromwellian the Premier's defeat barometer indicated a storm. Lumber King" and multimil engineered a plot to provoke doubt upon they "integrity or in which he dealt exclusively would have a contest. If they of a conspiracy against the eup Four ships were put out,

He paid a tribute to the honour of those immediately or with Home Rule. That and other had, he should re-appear amongst remacy of the King and Parlin thousand men seeking seale.

lionaire Frederick Weyerhaeuser zeal and devotion of the officers directly concerned (Cheers) speeches on the subject, were a them. During his absence, ment.

The blizzard broke at noon: One at the age of eighty. and men of the Army and Navy None had better reason than he complete justification of the however, he would be able to Lord Robert Cecil. M.P., in the hundred and fifty of the New- In the international soccer and prayed that they were not to know the zeal and devotion to passage of the Bill under the count on the co-operation of many course of a speech at Ashwell, foundland's Crew wandered match played at Glasgow an going to become a politicial in- duty and the sense of respon Parliament Act.

valued colleagues, (Loud cheer said that the Army was not the through the blinding drifts Saturday. Scotland beat England. strument. Mr. Asquith said he sibility pervading the Military, as

ing.)

instrument of the Government unable to find their ship." by 3 goals to 1.. would, as Secretary of State for well as the Naval, forces, The In the Interests of the Country.

but of the Crown: Soldiers and The blizzard raged all Wednes Mr. Walter Long presided at e DEMONSTRATION civilians were equal before the day but abated at night. The meeting held in London for the War, make a searching inquiry very fact that the Army rested

The right hon. gentleman con-

IN HYDE PARK. to see that the Army was fit for upon a voluntary and not & mer-

law as regards obedience of captain of the Belleaventure while purpose of establishing » League its duties, and denounced the connry basis was the best safe- tioued: "We believed that a

"A great Unionist demonstration orders.

preparing at daylight on Thursday of British Covensuters. Tory doc rines as striking at the guard for the maintenance of the settlement by consent in the in-

Lient-Col. Sir Mark Sykes, to send out men to the iceflose to root of discipline in the Army and splendid and untarnished trad-terests of the country and of both was held in Hyde Park on Satur-

the great political parties. Those day afternoon to protest against speaking at Driffield, said that hunt seals sighted strangers Lord Robert Cocii at Ashwell of democratic government. Reitions of its redoubtable past, believe in Home Rule do not the coercion of Ulster Twenty- the ory of the Army agair at the approaching with enfeebled gait said the Army was not the in garding Ilome Kale the Premier (Cheers.):

desire to see a new system started two imposing processions were People" was the greatest tragedy which betokened disaster. strument of the Government bat emphasised that settlement by

of the Crown Work of Rescue. ander most unfavourable condi- present, representing seventy-six which had ever happened in the consent was in the interests of the

The work of rescue lasted all "I am certain," went on the tion, amidst cloade of darkness constituencies of Greater London, country,

Mr. Walter Long, M.P., pre- day. The last man saved had procession to that in Hyde Park The Suffragiste held a rival country and in the interest of both great political parties. Mr. right hon gentleman, "they can and civil turmoil. On the other and there were fourteen plaz

sided over a meeting in London been fifty nine hours, adrift, and led a disturbance. Mr Asquith said be was oxious for be counted on, from the highest band, those to whom Home Rale forme.

with the object of foodless yet unscathed, though he Drummond and others were The processions were headed arranged peace but it must be peace with to the lowest, without exception, is repugnant cannot face with

to undertake the duties which equanimity the problems which by bands, and Union Jacks and honour for both parties.

rescue. The physicians are confid- they may be required to dis-the government of Ireland would banners were carried. It was Covenanters.

Lord Roberts was elected pre-ent that he will recover his sight, Sir Mark Sykes, speaking In bright sunshine, and amid charge, The Army in this coun- present if by any misadventure raining and a wind also prevail-

sident.

Most of the survivors ara iright-Driffield, said the ory of the Army notable scones of enthusiasm Mr.try is not, I pray, to become a the hopes and expectations of ed.

The speakers included Sir. Sir Edward Carson, in the course fully frostbitten and in one oase against the People was the Asquith opened his election cam- polital iustrament. It has no four-fifths of the Irish people paign in East Fife.

place and no voice in framing were to be dashed to the ground." Edward Carson, Mr. Austen of a speech, said that Ulster was gangrene has set in in both feet greatest tragedy that had ever

Chamberlain, Lord Milner, Lord unperturbed by the attempt to and they will have to be amputat happened to the country. our policy or in moulding our (Cheers.)

Selborne, Mr. F. E. Smith, and conquer the the workers by means ed. Others will lose fingers, foes, own laws. (Cheers.) It is true

Many speeches were made in of the Army. There were only ears, noses, and parts of their London and throughout Lord Charles Beresford. Temporary Exclusion Plan.

the that the doctrine of army Ad-

The Stock Exchange procession two courses open to the Govern- bodies. Two of them had their provinces on Saturday night an ministration, was laid down by

Mr. Asquith recapitulated his was's unique feature,

ment; the exclusion of Ulster, or brothers dio in their arms. the eider William Pitt, but it is

the theme of the Army in Dead Chopped out ico, temporary exclusion plan, and Mr. A.-J. Baltens, speaking bloodshed and coercion,

politics, while admitting its disadvantages from the eighth platform, said Lord Milner said the time was

Many of the dead were chopped said it had the great merit at that that was the first time he had short, but it was still possible to out of the ice with axes: Several Catinuing, Mr. Asquith said least that it got rid of any ques-spoken in Hyde Park, and he reise a storm of protest in the died when the rescuers were Bristol, said the crisis had proves it was his duty in the post which tion of coercion, and it gave the hoped, it would be the last, country, If Home Rule was taking them to the ship. Forty-that Mr. Asquith was a stateeman he had assume, by searching populations concerned the imbecause, please Heaven, there passed, the League would help three bodies were taken off three of unequalled power and dis personal enquiry and with the comediate arbitrament of the ballot. would never be another such Uister to make any new system small floss. The rescuers piled oipline. operation apon which he could"I am anxious for peace," he occasion arise, They were on the dear one. count, to see that the Army was fit affirmed, "but, and I say this for edge of a great national crime. There were many speeches in in the ever-shifting conditions for both sides, it must be peace with which, if committed, would lead Loudou and the provinces on to collect as it would seals. Many legend that the Government had Mr. Asquith returned thanks its primary and elementary duty honour. (Cheers.). In any set to the greatest national disaster. Saturday on the theme of the Army the dead were frightfully con-engineered a plot to provoke for his adoption as candidate. The Army would hear nothing of tlement that is come to we He vehemently denounced the and politics.

torted, and many went insane, Ulster." and said it was a novel experience politics from him, and he expect must secure the placing of a Home Liberals for flooding the country

their ravings terrifying their for him to be conteating a bye-ed, in return, to hear nothing of Rule Bill on the Statute-book with mendacious rhetoric, and

Mr. Acland, speaking at Loudon. Received April 6. comrades. Others battered their Enfield, said the attempt to usb election. They lived in strange politics from the Army. (Cheers.) We hope and think that is not affirmed that Uletarmen would Mr. Asquith Jae returned to faces on the ice, their bodies the Army for political purposes times, and in no respect were

incompatible with careful resist coercion to the last. London though the

local being almost unrecognisable. One had been defeated. The Govern they more strange than in the

provision to meet the convictions

There was a gigantic throng in Unionists will not decide until man committed suicide by jump-ment would not permit the Army way in which credulity dogged The responsibility for the and susceptibilities of the minori- the Park, who sang "O, God, our to-day. The general feeling at Easting off an icecrag. When the the heels of invention, end inven- preservation of domestic peace ty. I firmly believe that in time, help in ages past,"

to discriminate politically. " and the! tion strove, but strove in vain, lag with the Magistrates and and after experience, there will National Arthem, after which Ladybank speech, is that a contest ture, their boots and clothing had Fife, after consideration of the survivors reached the Bellaven- to keep pace with oredality:

Police. Under normal conditions be a convergence of forces in the there were speeches, and on a is improbable. the Army's aid could not be, and direction of complete Irish anity." bugle call being given as a signal ought not to be, invoked by the (Lond cheers.) They must see, a resolution was put from all the In the course of the past fort civil power. It was only in emer he continued, that the same pro platforme protesting against the night they had had a ridiculous gencies which were happily rare cess is applied, with necessary use of the Army and Navy legend circulated

that the that any such call could be ad variations and without undue against Ulster, and demanding Government had selected the dressed to the Army, and when delay, to other parts of the United that Home Rule shall be submit moment at which they were such an ocasion arose it was the Kingdom, in the conviction that ted to the people. making proposala for the settle-duty of the soldier, as well as it such reconstruction of Constitu ment of the Home Rule dificulty was the duty of the civilian, to tional organisation would lead to amid tremendous enthusiasm, and The resolutions were carried to engineer a plot to provoke comply with the demands of the greater efficiency in the conduct the leaders were accorded Ulster. From the same quarters civil power, These present Tory of both local and Imperial inter- ovations. The climax was reach- England and Scotland met at it had been suggested that he doctrines struck at the very root, este. The quickened patriotiem or when Sir Edward Carson, Glasgow on Saturday. There was took his new office of Secretary not only of Army discipline, but of every part would stimulate the waving the Union Jack, called a crowd of 15,000 spectator of State for War for the purpose of democratio government. of escaping for a fortnight the (Cheere) Where did they lead to? larger patriotism of the whole. for chears for the King, and present. The weather was dull the survivors are expected to die, held at Happy Valley on Satur described the scene as one of the formidable ordeal of crossing They set a precedent which was

most memorable in history. Sir with the Opposition. capable of an infinite number of swords They declared also that instead applications, much more diens- The Prime Minister dealt Edward Carson continued to of stealing away to fight in the trous in its consequences than the briefly with other subjects of wave the flag till the majority twilight in disguise and by a one which weat before it. (Cheers. political importance-Welsh Dis-of the demonstrators had die- devious route, he went by an

establishment, Plural Voting, and persed... A Grammar of Anarchy. Land Rating problems-and ordinary route, in an ordinary

remained If they were to recognise the said there way, and was met by expressionE

The Suffragettes arranged of welcome and hopes of good existence of a dispensing nad

serious point. very

Be rival procession, in Hyde Park, luck (Cheers.) That was what discriminating power they must emphasised that if they atadi which led to a disturbance, as they called a provocative act. recognise it not only in the officers ed the bye-elections of the last result of which Mrs Drummond

but in the men, and not only in two years they would find that, and other suffragettes (Laughter.)

the Army, bat in every body of perhaps with one exception, the arrested. The Comedy of Errors.

public servante. Two years ago loss of a seat to a Liberal had OTHER SPEECHES. Finally, in the comedy of in that hall be described the been due to a split in the forces

Mr. O. E. Hobhouse, M.P. errors, the Unionists in East Fife doctrines of the Tories as furnish of progress. Upon the great were awaiting his speech to seeing a complete grammar of issue of Home Rule the bye-speaking at Bristol, said that the if they would oppose him. Mean-anarchy, (Cheers.) He reated elections pronounced with an Home Eule crisis hand proved Mr. while, anxious and panic-now that these new dogmas, overwhelming majority in favour Asquith to be a statesman of

Landon Received April 0. stricken, they were to be kept on couiter-signed by the Tory les- of the Government policy. It unequalled power, and he added

Renter's Berlin correspondent THE ROCHETTE SCANDAL. the tenterhooks of suspense. Was der, would be invoked whenever was indeed a melancholy thing that discipline would be required there ever greater political topasa a irit of lawlessness claimed for those whose heart were in all ranks of the Army for the states that two Editora bave been sentenced to six weeks' imprison- turvydom? (Laughter.) He was to blook the ordered machinery hound up in the future prospecta repression of disorders.

Mr. O. P. Trevelyan, M.P., ment in a fortress for libelling bmitting himself to the hazard of and inconveniences of an election (Cheere)-governing Society of wise democratic legislation to

find the democratic army split speaking at Leicester, said that the Crown Prince. The libel agunder in the face of the com- the officers at the Curragh were consisted of a letter supposed to Home Rale by Consent. Turning to Home Rule, Mr. man enemy, and it was time that not conscious of being the instru- bo written by a sentimental Renter's correspondent at Paris noon Asquith said the bill, ander the such a state of affaire came to an ments of military despotism, but schoolgirl of high birth on the states that the Government has Triste to the Army,

Parliament Act, which was not end. (Cheers.) It would surely were the catspaws of politics occasion of her leaving school, instructed the Minister of Justice p.m. Without going into the incid-intended to be a dead letter, was be obildish in the great issues die-hards to-day, and would be the reference being to the Crown to enquire into the responsibility Cena connected with that change, far advanced on its road to the before them, which could only be come the agenta of military Prinos's farewell order to the of the Judges conoerned in the

Hussars at Danzig..

Rochette acaudal. declared thereund been Satute-hook. There was neither brought to success by unity and tyranny to

A Ridiculous Legend.

because he had become Secretary of State for War.

Preserving Domestic P.ace.

:

The Need for Unity.....

one

A Rival Procession.

a

were

INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL.

London. Received April 5..

to be out oft.

Mr. John Ward, speaking in

the East. Ead, described as Colony in Mourning. Cromwellian the Premier's defeat The Colony is in mourning, of the conspiracy against the and the public funeral will take aupremacy of the King in Palia. place on Monday at St. Johns ment. where business is suspended.

Hope is abandoned of the.

NEWS.

SCOTLAND DEFEAT ENGLAND. Southern Cross which, it is

certain, foundered off Cape Race Canton regatta is fully des with all aboard.

cribed in to-day'a issna. Survivors Expected to Live. Ceneral news appears on page

London. Receivod April 6.

3 and log book on page 6. today. Router's correspondent at St.

St. Paul's College sports were

John reports that while none of and the turf soft.

There was a most sensational the loss of limbs from frostbite day.

will be terrible. Three of them. The annual inspection of the shart, Scotland got away and first few minutes. Play became will lose one foot each, eleven

feet, five will lose both fest, eight day. Thompson scored for them in the will loss both hands and both Volnatcers was held on Satur very keen and fast, and Fleming will lose one hand each, or fin G. A, in the United Serviced The D, C. L. I. defeated the R, (Swindon) equalised before the

gers, and one will lose both hands, League replay on Saturday. interval.

Upon resuming Scotland played markedly superior football, and MoMenemy and Reid both scored. Scotland won 3 goals to I.

LIBELLING A PRINCE.

EDITORS IMPRISONED.

OBITUARY.

DEATH OF "LUMBER KING.”

London. Received April 5. The death is announced from Pasadera, California, of Mr. Fred- erick Weyerhaeuser, Lumber King and multi-millionaire.

AN ENQUIRY.

· London, Received April 5.

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