Show and ireland is to be given home rule and kitchener recalled from india under the new government london dee 22 the announcement of premier campbell bannerman in his speech in albert hall last at the opening of the electoral campaign that the government has given instructions tor the stoppage of importations of chinese coolies to south africa caused the kaffir stocks to open weak today leading shares fell 38 3 8 the conservative papers refer to the step as being the most serious taken by a responsible government since the attempt to impose the stamp duty on the american colonies the possibility of lord ski borne the high commissioner in south africa resigning is discussed the premiers reference to indian affairs in he said we shall make ourselves a party to no step involving an invasion of the sacred principle of the subordination of the military to civil authority is taken by many military men to imply the recall or the resignation of general lord kitchener the commander ln chief in india who successfully appealed to the late government in his disputes with the late viceroy lord curzon of heddleston Kedd leston while the premier had little to say on the irish question the conservatives serva tives will take his announcement that those domestic affairs which concern the irish people alone and not us should be in their hands as a reiteration ot the policy of home rule and this will be the battle cry of the unionists in the impending campaign |