Some of the daily papers of Friday, July 15th, contained
an
interesting and very important communique issued by the Lord Chancellor. It corrects a mischievous story published by Colonel Repington in the first edition of his book but omitted from later issues. The story stated that at the time of the Ulster movement in 1914 Sir Edward Carson called at Buckingham Palace with the object of seeing the King, and told
Lord Stamfordham that if any arrests of the leaders took place the Customs in Ulster would be seized. That no arrests took place was alleged to be the result of this communication. The suggestion was, of course, that the King intervened to prevent his Ministry from carrying out their intention.
" This story [states the Lord Chancellor] is in every respect untrue. No such conversation took place between Lord Cason and Colonel Repington ; Lord Carson made no such communica- tion to Lord Stamfordham, and His Majesty did not intervene in the matter in any way. Colonel Ropingion's attention was some months ago called to these facts, and the paragraph was accordingly omitted from the second edition of his book."
