26 MAY 1917, Page 2

If we were - to have a Convention, lot us. go

there without having laid down anything whatsoever. If we laid . it down that it was impossible to settle with the exclusion of. Ulster, Ulster people, when they came together, would have just.as good a right to lay: down that it was impossible to settle without the exolusion of Ulster. If the Convention was to be of any use, itmust be on this clear understanding, and it ought to be entered

upon without raising old passions. Mr. Devlin expressed his complete agreement with Mr. Redmond and his violent opposition to partition in any form, and Mt. Wardlè, Chairman of the Labour Party, welcomed the announcement that representatives of Labour were to be invited to the proposed Convention. Wedeal elsewhere with the problems involved in the Government proposal