23 OCTOBER 1915, Page 2

In the House of Commons on Wednesday Sir Edward Carson

made a statement as to the reasons which impelled him to resign office. After declaring that there never has been, either in the Cabinet or in the House or in the country, any disagreement or divergence of opinion as to carrying on the war at all sacrifice to a final and conclusive issue, after dismissing with contempt any suggestion that there was party feeling at the back of his action, and finally after pointing out that at every Cabinet at which he had attended the energies of the whole body have been solely directed to the prosecution of the war, he stated that he had never had any personal differences with the Prime Minister or with any of his late colleagues.