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Show -uir CROWDS RUSH TO HEAR PREMIER London, March 9. For many years no such rush of members of the House of Commons to secure scats for a dc-bato dc-bato had been seen as waB witnessed today. All were eager to listen to Premier Asquith's announced state- ment on the Irish home rule controversy. contro-versy. Only on occasions when the king himself has opened parliament have such throngs gathered In the vicinity of Parliament Square The doors of the House were opened at 8 o'clock. Within two hours every seat In tho house not reserved for members of the cabinet and undersecretaries under-secretaries of state had been appropriated. |