14 OCTOBER 1916, Page 2

Mr. Redmond, who, like all his Nationalist countrymen, is good

at threats mixed with cajolery, after declaring that the Irish Party would defeat conscription, said that the way to get recruits was to soothe the inflamed feelings of the Irish people by with- drawing martial law and generally apologizing to the Sitm Fein= for our blunder in having treated their well-meant little rising in the spirit we did, and acknowledging that we ought not to have 'interfered with their April "shoot "of ichaki-clad men. We must recognize "generously and chivalrously" all that Ireland has done. "On these lines the Government will succeed in re- cruiting even after all that has happened. But as for conscription, that way lies madness, ruin, and disaster."