St. John's Daily Star, 1916-01-12

              the st john's daily star new found land volume 11 3.00 per annum wednesday january 12,1916 price one cent no 9 irish nationalists drop opposition to conscription made their protest against the military service bill and recognising that the measure had the support of an over whelming majority of the british re presentatives in the house of com mons would cast no further vote in any form against it even the oppon ents of the bill he said admit it is receiving the support of a large ma jority of the public of the united kingdom mr redmond admitted the majority in favor of the bill at the vote pn the first reading excluding the irish members was ten to one and that un der these circumstances he and his col leagues could not take the responsibil ity of any further opposition he said the bill would become law and he hop ed it would be passed rapidly carson denunciatory sir edward carson scathingly de nounced ihe opponents of the bill and he declared the obligations which brit ain had assumed could not be fulfilled unices the bill became law the dar danelles had been abandoned he said because the country had not had enough men to carry through the en terprise of which sir edward carson said the country expected much but had received but little the reason for this failure was not unwillingness on the part of the government to send men but the fact that they could not get men if these men were not obtained he asked how was the war to be carried on what mattered injury to indus tries or industrial compulsion as long as we win asked sir edward what will anything malter if we lose in a derisive manner he invited the opponents of the bill to take over the government and declare to the coun try that although lord kitchener and the whole military staff advised there is not a sufficiency of men the people would be fools if they agreed to com pulsion to bring in the slackers referring to suggestions regarding the conscription of property sir ed ward declared he would not from it if it were necessary in this way to raise funds to win the war what good is property to me he said if i have to hang my head in shame he expressed profound disappoint ment at the exclusion of ireland from the bill as irishmen are not less con cerned in gaining the victory than is the democracy of england as irishmen sir edward carson continued to say we ought to be ashamed to be subjected to such a re proach ireland has not done half as well as england in recruiting and it is a great mistake to go on buttering her up telling her she has done splendidly : when she has not appealed to redmond turning towards john redmond sir edward appealed to him to consid er whether even now ireland could not be included i believe in my heart he said that when the hour of victory come as come it certainly will we who are irishmen will feel ashamed when we remember that we expected others to make sacrifices from which we provid ed for our exclusion john redmond tells commons says that n view of the big major is given the bill in the house of commons his party cannot contin ue to oppose or to vote against the measure for which he bespeaks an early enactment—sir edward car son makes strong pronouncement in favor of conscription and urges that ireland jbe included within the scope of the measure says omission shames irish iindon jan ll.—the debate on the second reading of the military i bill began in the house of 011s this afternoon the opinion enerally expressed in the lobby the vote in favor of the bill on second reading would pro\e to be eater than on the first reading was even stated by some that minority vote would dwindle down to a negligible figure redmond's announcement n redmond intervened early in the debate having gone direct to par ent from a meeting of the irish he quickly ranged himself and ollowers once more on the side of :. : government mr redmond said the irish nationalists having redmond to retire london hears the great irishman will resign leadership of nationalist party and be succeeded by johr dillon—conscription the cause i ondon jan i i john redmond retirement from the leadership o the nationalist party and possiblj from parliament is extremely prob able according to the morning post's dublin correspondent owing to grave differences of opinion within th party especially on the question o military compulsion mr redmond would have been is favour of applying the national regis tration scheme earl derby's scheme and premier asquith's compulsion bill to ireland but he was overborne by john dillon who strongly opposec 1 compulsion in any form cither for ireland or england and assumed a peremptory tone which would seem tc indicate that has c strong following undaunted by losses heayy casualties in bessarabia cam paign do not discourage russians who are , determined to break through enemy's lines at any cost derlin jan 1 1 according to every indication the lull in the russian attack on the bessarabian front during the last twenty-four hours is only temporary despite the en ormous losses which we estimated as far exceeding fifty thousand dead or wounded new forces are known to be moving with the purpose of reinforc ing the attacking columns and the resumption of the bitter assault of the last few days is hourly expected many caucasian groups are reported as be ing sent to the fron captured russian officers declared that the russian emperor visited tremblowa galicia on the evening of the offensive with the object # of giving heart to his troops and de livered an order to break the austrian line at all costs the officers were assured that there were sufficient troops to accomplish this much valuable property is liable to seizure london jan 12.—according to an official estimate made to-day the value of property in germany owned by subjects of britain is approximately 72,000,000 the value of german owned property in britain is given as 105,000,000 conscription opposition is dwindling expected that the government's com pulsory military service bill will not be voted against by more than 30 memb3rs as compared with the 105 who voted against the bill on its first reading j on don jan 12.—op ld position to the government compulsion bill dwindled to a meagre handful in parliament to day and predictions in the lobby of the house of commons to night were that the vote on the second reading to-morrow would find little more than twenty or thirty in opposition as compared with 105 on the first reading the irish nationalists to-day announced the abandonment of their opposition in view of the fact that the bill does not apply to ireland john redmond veteran home rule leader who made this an nouncement shared a most prom inent position in the jap's debate with his old enemy sir "• edward carson who in a fiery speech pleaded ireland ought to be in cluded in the bill the chief speaker against the bill to-day was wm crawford anderson a labor member he is a well known labor leader son of a blacksmith and organizer of the powerful shop assistants union the effect of his speech however was largely discounted by the fact that he was promptly disavowed as a representative of labor bulgars attack the greek troops paris gets trustworthy account of serious clash on the frontier paris jan 12.—news has been re ceived from trustworth sources to the effect that the soldiers of one bulgar ian regiment attacked greek troops at the frontier near west rifta and tried x occupy two frontier posts the encounter says the temps sal onika correspondent lasted six hours and artillery of both sides was used iwo greek soldiers were killed and several wounded jlistral uubail one of j off re's chkf lieu'enar.ts and advisers says the irish have done well their loyalty remarkable consider g history says birrell ondon jan 12.—agustin birrell irish secretary replying to sir edward carson said the , government never contemplated the application of the bill to ireland for they could not hope to establish in ireland those ap peal tribunals wherein lay the success for the bill in britain ireland has done wonderfully well but i say do not rush her irish loyalty is a plant that has been well watered well nurtured and never pulled up by the roots if before the war one had told me that ireland would do what she has already done i would have stared at him in wild surprise and whisperer you don't know what you are talk ing about who remembering irish history dare say ireland has not done aniazin ly well make a dead set on montenegrins gallant folk hard pressed vlonicnegro being treated to the same steam roller method of attack as that v/h'ch overwhelmed serbia montenegrins lose important stronghold of mount lovvcen british troops in a difficult position in mesopotamia and gen aylmer has hard struggle ahead before he can effect junction with other british forces at kut-el-amara i ondon jan 12.—montenegro i being treated to a steam roller ittack similar to that which crumplec up its fnend and neighbour serbia the austrian onslaught which has beei a long t:mc in preparation is new be ng prosecuted with great violence xienacing several important position lose to the adriatic coast the great montenegrin stronghold mount lowccn has fallen according o to-night's austrian official statemen ,. the attack here was largely assistec by austrian warships and the guns of ihe cattaro iorts n addition the montenegrins claim the . austnans made abundant use of asphyxiating gas â–  ; a battle is raging along the whole northern and eastern frontiers of mon tenegro on the east the montenegrins have been compelled to evacuate berane in mesopotamia for the british public the latest taterrcnt regarding the situation in mesopotamia will not entirely relieve the anxiety of the british general ayl mers column which is advancing to the relief of kut-el-amara met and re pulsed a strong turkish force but i's position is by no means satis actory for it finds in front of it a turkish army greatly superior in num iers and it is therefore evident that he successful juncture of the two bnt sh forces although they are only wenty miles apart may prove a diffi cult matter . there have been no fresh develop ments on the russian front where cold eather again has set in the thermom er atlfeme points touching 20 degrees clow ze merely a delay although for the moment the russ ians have ceased their attack upon the austro-german lines from the pripet river to the bessarabian front informat ion from german sour-ces is that they have not given up the venture but are merely reorganizing their forces-for an othr formidable assault the russians are reported as forti fying positions recently won by them and m this way their front will be grad n ually extended till they occupy about thirty-four miles of the east bank of the stvipa river a position which is deem ed as secure against recapture by the austro-germans as far as the western front is con cerned the centre of interest is still the champagne region according to 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