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Show ilEO MEN ATTACK POLICE BARRACKS Ii E1J1BS USED House of Commons Passes! Second Reading of Irish Home Rule Measure SKIDERKEN, County Cork. Ireland, March 31. -More than 100 armed! armed men attacked Ihe police bar-' racks at Durras. seven miles southwest I of Banlry, County Cqrk, with rifles and petrol bombs last night, a portion ' of the building was blown up and twol policemen were wounded, ono serious. I After a fierce fight tho raiders, some of whom are believed to have been! wounded, were driven off. I LONDON, March 31. The house of' commons passed the second reading of i the home rule bill todav. The vote was ' 348 to 91. i LONDON. March 30. Herbert H. As quith in the house of commons todav' described the Irish home rule bill as a' "cumberous duplication and multiplication multipli-cation of institutions and offices." adding add-ing that "from the viewpoint of efficiency effici-ency there is nothing to be said for it " Mr. Asquith recalled that in 1914 he gave a pledge that Ireland should have one parliament and declared that he adhered to that view now. He disagreed, dis-agreed, he said, with those who believed believ-ed there could be no constitutional changes until order had been restored, and asserted that the root of the trou ble could not be gotten at until there' was a wide reform in tho government system. The substituion of this bill foor the measure on the statute books. Mr. Asquith As-quith continued, .took from Ihe Irish what the majority of them wanted ir one form or another and attempted t force On them something tho great ma jority disliked and would always refuse to accept He advocated amending the 1914 home rule act, enlarging the pow-' ers of the Irish parliament and execu-ive execu-ive so as to give them to all intents and purposes the status of a dominion. Mr. Asquith said he still favored the expediency of county option for Ulster, ' whereupon Sir Edward Carson, the, Ulfiter Unionist leader, asked the) ; speaker It he favored county option j j for the south of Ireland. Mr. Asquith' lanswerod in tho affirmative. j "Then we can have a Sinn Fein I county," rclQrted Sir Edward. I oo |