The Independent . andjeers from the Irish party that he couldnot be heard. Finally the Nationalists,at the call of John Redmond, withdrewin a body and formulated a resolutionaccusing the Government of playinginto the hands of the Irish pro-Ger-man revolutionary party with stupidperversity worthy the worst reaction-aries of Petrograd, and appealing tothe American people to urge upon theBritish Government the duty of apply-ing to Ireland the great principles soclearly and splendidly enunciated byPresident Wilson in his historical ad-dress to the United States Senate. Ex-Premier Asquith, with cha
The Independent . andjeers from the Irish party that he couldnot be heard. Finally the Nationalists,at the call of John Redmond, withdrewin a body and formulated a resolutionaccusing the Government of playinginto the hands of the Irish pro-Ger-man revolutionary party with stupidperversity worthy the worst reaction-aries of Petrograd, and appealing tothe American people to urge upon theBritish Government the duty of apply-ing to Ireland the great principles soclearly and splendidly enunciated byPresident Wilson in his historical ad-dress to the United States Senate. Ex-Premier Asquith, with character-istic tact, interposed the suggestion thatthe question might be referred to theDominion statesmen to whom the prob-lems of local autonomy have presentedthemselves in different forms and bywhom they have been solved in differentways. This suggestion was welcomedby Mr. Lloyd George, who is anxious togive the Imperial Conference which hehas called a wider scope and greater au-thority than it has hitherto Prest llluntruting A FEMININE PHASE OF THE NAVYMrs. Abby F. Ransom, volunteer recruitingagent for a New York Navy station, has dis-covered a brand new job for a woman in war-time. She visits the homes of the boys whowant to enlist to explain away parentalobjections In reply to Liberal protests againstshoving aside the Home Rule act astho it were a scrap of paper Chan-cellor of the Exchequer Bonar Lawannounced later that the Governmentwould make another attempt to settlethe Irish question. In the meantimethe Government is using the excep-tional powers conferred upon it by theDefense of the Realm act to preventanother Irish rebellion. Last monthabout fifty members of the Sinn Fein,Gaelic League and Irish Volunteershave been arrested and deported toEngland where they will be internedwithout trial. ,, , . More than fifty thousand Making an , ,J , national guardsmen have Army been taken into the fed- eral service to protect life and prop-erty thruout the country. Not all o
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