The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-03
HOME RULE FIGHT
 FUSES UN|ON|STS Prince of Wales to Be Placed
 With Army ROYALTY IS FLYING Regarded As Not Unlikely That King Himself May Ask to Be Taken On Airship
 Flights
By PHILLIP EVERETT

London. Sept. 2-(Special)-At present even the most sturdy Tory must admit that this party is in state of terrible discord and confusion after the utter oe- feat on the veto bill. but in less than three weeks the great home rule ean- paign will begin and prominent unionists assert that the opening of 1t will see the forces of unionism a solid homege- neous body once more
 I had a talk few days ago with MT. Skeel- Maitland, chief organizer of the unionist party, who took a very optimls- tic view of the future. and said:
 "Unionista despite their differences over the last phase of the parliamentary lbill, will bury the hatchet and join forces lin the great fight against disunon. Active preparations are now being made on both sides for the forthcoming bat tie, and every effort is being made to perfect both the unionist and radical or ganizations.
 q have not the least hesitation In stating that the differences between the | Surrender and no surrender" sections of the unionist party will be forgotten when the time for action arrives.
 Ut must be remembered that the diff | ference between them was one Of method not principles. The menace of home rule will effecticely heal the split, for | that great issue comes before party or sectional dissensions.
 With regard to the campaign itself, l am afraid that it is impossible to give details at the moment, but you may rest assured that the party will not be be- hindhand, when the time arrives for the l question to be thrashed out before the country.
 We are not allowing the grass to grow under our feet, and everything is being done to strengthen and perfect our forces.
 The anti-home rule campaign will be the feature of the autumn official sea- son, to be opened at Belfast on Septem- Der 23.
 On that day Sir Edward Carson, M. P, the chairman of the Irish unionist par liamentry party, and vice president of the unionist council will address a mass meeting at Belfast All the unionist members are expected to be present.
 On the following Monday, the 2oths the council of the party will discuss the plans of campaign, which is to be or ganized, not only in Ireland, but also in | England.
 In Ireland 1t will, of course. take the form of preparations to deal with the I
 In England, 1t will be carried on by | political propaganda
 | Even at the present time certain amount of political work is being under taken by anti-home rule speakers. Their efforts are being specially concentrated l on doubtful constituencies.
 Immovable radical seats are to be left alone as are also those pronouncedly | conservative.
 1 There is good reason to believe that | the Prince of Wales will not remain af ter Christmas board H. M. $. Hin dustan or whichever ship he is then serving, and that, in the early part of next year, he will be attached to one of the cavalry regiments stationed at 1 Aldershot, in order that he may com mence his military training. | The heir apparents future is still unde- termined, and the king is not likely to | come to any decision until after his re- turn from India. The young prince, if his own desires were followed. would probably like to continue in the navy, as he loves the sea, and everything con nected with it. There are many weighty reasons, however. why the heir-apparent should not serve In the navy, not the least being the comparatively long peri ods he would be compelled to be away from home. so that ultimately he will be identified more closely with the army than with the navy.
 Now that Princess Louise, of Batten- lberg, and Prince Henry of Prussia have had thier "babtism of the air" by being taken up in aeroplanes, at Eastchurch, the possibility of a prince near to the throne or even the king himself having a flight Is being discussed in aviation circles With a good pilot on a calm day l+l 1.a Ar{cl at Qn nil of course. would make an ordinary flight and would not attempt trick flying is as safe as is motoring. It cannot be too wisely known that although some flying accidents have been inexplicable, none of them has occurred to experienced pi- lots making ordinary simple excursi ,ns Into the air.
 The scarcity of ore in Furness. which has been felt for some time has become a serious problem to mine owners and iron smeters, and the latter have had to import largely from abroad to help out local supplies
 With a view of finding if new supplies existed, Mr Lincoln Tootil water diviner of Harwood, near Bolton. has been carrying out a series of interesting tests.
 He used a steal rod in place of the us- ual hazel twig and stated that he found ores in various parts of the district near to Barrow. In one place he found beds varying in width from 10 feet to 75 feet. He was, however, unable to tell the depth of the metal from the surface. He tested over the ground where ore was known to exist at Newton Furness, and his findings agreed with the known facts, his steel rod being violently agi- tated wherever the ore lay under the sur face
 The naval airship at Barrow is about to make its second appearance, this , time to undergo trimming tests prepara- tory to short aerial trips. Work on the airships was commenced two years ago; It's launching was officially expected in June 1910; the vessel was actually launched last May. It was then found scri ously at fault, and has since. and for the third time been considerably altered
 The Barrow airship is of the right type established by Zeppelin, but it embodies a number of Improvements. The failure to succeed in the first launching appar- ently was due to blunders in general .x~r Al.~ L. l.