South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-03-24
FORCED
To TELL ORDERS
GIVEN SOLDIERS
Premier Will Produce Papers in
Gen. Cough Resignation
Case Before Commons at
Wednesday Session.
BY HERBERT TEMPLE.

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opened their attack upon the govern
ment in the house OF commons this
afternoon. forcing Colonel j. l.. B.
Seely, the secretary of war, 10 promise
to lay before the house Wednesday
all the documents in connection with
the resignation rendered by Gen. Iu-
bert Cough. commander of the Third
cavalry brigate in ireland on Saturday.
when hostilities in Ulster province
seemed inevitable.
Premier Asquith announced that the
documents would include the written
instructions to General Sir Arthur
Paget commander inch of the
royal forces in Ireland
This action. said Premier Asquith.
would give the members of commons
an opportunity TO discuss the army sit
uation from all angles.
Kings Program.
From reliable sources il was re-
ported that the king has placed the
following program before the cabinet
for the Cancellation of all factions in
Ireland:
THAT Ulster counties be given an
additional six years, making u in all
during which they might be excluded
from the operations of the home rule
hill.
THAT all army officers who re-
signed when civil war in Ulster SEEM
ed inevitable, be taken back without
loss of merit.
Unionist newspapers boasted Tues
day that the present outcome of the
clash over home rule has resulted in
a victory for the British army.
''If the Orangemen continue their
protests with their threats Of war
home rule is dead" declared some of
the radical newspapers.
ON the other hand liberal organs
claim that the Irish policy of the lib
era1 government has been vindicated.
They promise that Premier Asquith
will soon have another statement to
make in the house of commons which
will go far toward wiping out the ex-
listing hostility
Conference of Cabinet.
There was a conference of cabinet
ministers in Downing st. at noon when
the situation was canvassed at length.
IL was subsequently reported that the
troops which were rushed TO the bor-
ders OF Ulster will soon be ordered
back TO their original stations.
Alarm has begun TO show itself in
the camp of the Irish natiOnalistS.
The future of the home rule bill is un-
certain. Although the government
has pledged itself to pass the bill.
amendments may yet be added which
will make the measure unsatisfactory
to the party which has been lighting
for it's passage.
John Redmond and other leaders OF
the nationalists have been asked to
secure further pledges from Premier
ASquith and the cabinet that the bill
will not be further impaired than to
give Ulster province a temporary
term of exclusion from the authority
Of the Dublin parliament
Predict Dissolution
Many persons in political circles did
not hesitate TO predict Tuesday that
parliament Will be dissolved before
the home rule bill becomes a law and
general elections ordered
This and other political reports
made their influence felt in the stock
market during the days trading and
the same shares were consequently
depressed.
The Irish natiOnaIists will fight bit
terly against such a elimination of
events They ridicule the claim of the.
unionists that 20 per cent of the army
officers would desert their posts in the
event of civil war in Ireland.
Through the chaos which has so
quickly followed the events in parlia-
ment last Friday when the unionists
launched a vote of censure against the
government, the fact is making itself
more apparent daily that the liberal
ministry is losing instead of gaining
strength. Even members of the lib
eral party are sharply criticising
Premier Asquith for his home rule
"blunders''. Chancellor Lloyd George.
Colonel Seeley. the minister Of war.
and First Lord Of the Admiralty Win
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