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Show BRITISH PREMIER , DEFIES IRISHMEN . i . SAYS ENGLAND WILL, RESTORE ORDER BY METHODS . , HOWEVER STERN. Insists That a Republic Would Not Satisfy Irishmen, as "Ulster : i Would Have Something to Say." 11 ! ' ) ' J-. I I : ) ' : I '. Carnarvon, Walds. Premier Lloyd George, In a speech here Saturday, declared, de-clared, that the government intended to restore order in Ireland by "methods "meth-ods however stern" and proceed with Its home rule bill. He turned ' down dominion home rule, protesting against suggestions that the government should go far-, ther than did Gladstone or Asquith,. "not because Ireland needs it, not because be-cause It Is fair to the United Kingdom, King-dom, but because crime has been successful." suc-cessful." ' ' 1 ' A republic, he Insisted, would not satisfy Irishmen, as "Ulster would have something to say." Nothing In the past, he continued, would . justify present conditions in Ireland. "' The premier declared "a real murder mur-der gang" Is dominating Ireland, making mak-ing It Impossible for reasonable men to come together to consider the best way to govern the country. "It Is es-sential,".he es-sential,".he went on, "in the interest of Ireland that the gang should be broken up, and unless I am mistaken we shall do it. But side by side with that we must proceed with measures for self-government self-government In Ireland." lie declared that -If, as was contended, con-tended, there was war In Ireland, then the war must be waged by both sides. But when policemen were shot In the back by Sinn Felners, he said, it was not war, but murder." "We must therefore restore order, even by stern measures," he asserted, "because we cannot permit the country coun-try to fall into complete anarchy." |
