27 JUNE 1914, Page 17

We are glad to note that a "well-informed correspondent" of

the Times, writing in Friday's issue, sketches the policy of the Lords exactly as we have sketched it in our issue of to-day, and in those of the last three or four weeks. The Unionist leaders have decided, we are told, to put forward such amend-. ments as may to the best of their information fulfil the object of that measure—namely, to avert an immediate outbreak of civil war. ".The amendments, which are to a great extent• drafted already, will propose to abolish the six years' and leave. Ulster free to go into the Home Rule scheme-or to' stay out as the majority of her people choose, and will also extend and simplify the projected area of Exclusion.