Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-15
Governments Concessions to
Obstetrics Has Not Aided
Settlement.
COVENANTERS ARE FIRM
IN ALL THEIR DEMANDS
arrangements Threats to Fight No
Longer Considered Bluffs.
10000 Men Drilling.

LONDON. March IA settlement OF
the Irish home rule diificulty apparently
has been little advanced by the British
government great concessions to the
Obstetrics. and taking the assertions of
both political parties at their face value.
the deadloc.. today remains as immovable
as before Premier Asquith's conciliatory
offer was made in the house of commons
March o.
The signers of the Ulster covenant de-
clare strongly that nothing less than the
permanent exclusion of the Protestant
counties of Ulster from the Irish gov
eminent at Dublin instead of the pro-
posed six-year option will be considered
by them.
The more radical covenanters demand
not only the exclusion of the four coun-
ties-Antrim. Armag... Londonderry and
Down-in which the Protestants are in
tne majority. but they want the entire
province of Ulster excluded. Anything
else. they say. would be the deserton
of their comrades in counties where Prot
estants are in the minority and would
be treason to their covenant.
Carson Sends Message.
Sir Edward Carson, leader of the Ulster
unionists. sent a message to Belfast to
day. saying:
so far our preparations are con-
cerned the pronouncement of the govern
ment. if anything, necessitates a still
more forward movement this year. We
are going to make good in action all We
have been saving and preparing for dur
ing the past two years.
On the other side the government news
papers assert that Premier Asquith' $
scheme is the absolute limit of conces-
sions. and is not a basis for further ne
gotiationS.
Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord q
the British admiralty. speaking at Brad
ford. Yorkshire, today, said: 1t seems
to me that in principle-I don't speak of
details-that it is the last offer his majes-
tvs government can or ought to make.
Take Different View.
friend of Premier Asquith. writing in the
Liverpool Daily Post. of which he is the
editor. takes a different view. He says:
In non-political clubs everybody is con-
fident that Premier Asquith has made up
his own mind to let the nationalists go:
that sooner or later he will tell Mr.. Red
mond that the only feasible home rule is
one with the entire exclusion of Ulster
Irish nationalist newspapers declare
that john Redmond, the IRISH nationalist
leader in the house of commons, and his
colleagues could not possibly support a
bill containing further Surrenders from
the original scheme of home rule. Some of
the nationalist organs bitterly denounce
the nationalist members for submitting to
Premier Asquith's terms.
Are Drilling to Fight.
Little talk is now heard that the
arrangements preparations to fight are a
gigantic bluff. The covenanters claim to
have $1,000 men drilling in Sir Edward
Carson's army, with 10000 rifles and some
pieces Of artillery.
The London newspapers are filled with
pictures of Ulster men in civilian clothes
and with rifle and cartridge belts, execut-
ing skirmish and other drills like trained
soldiers.
Mr. Churchill. in comment today in his
Bradford address on the preparations be-
ing made in Ulster to resist home rule,
said:
THE first British soldier or coast guard
who is attacked and killed by the
Orangemen will raise such an explosion
in this country as the tories little appre-
ciate. and it will shake the foundations of
society"
Percy Holden Illingworth, the chief lib
eral whip in the house Of commons,
speaking at the same meeting, said there
would be no general election until the
home rule for Ireland, the Welsh disestab-
hshment and the plural voting bills had
been passed by parliament