18 JULY 1914, Page 2

Lord Lansdowne's speech was firm and able, and exactly on

the lines which he has maintained throughout. Very properly he asked the Government what their plan was, or whether they had any plan. " Who is going, and how, to bring Ulster into your scheme? Not the rival Nationalist Army which has been set up in Ireland. Not the armed forces of the Crown, for it has been solemnly intimated to us that Ulster is not to be driven into a Constitution to which she is averse. Those are the Chief Secretary's words." The coercion of Ulster, Lord Lansdowne added, was dead.