§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Prime Minister whether he has noticed that, since July, 1914, in Divisions in this House on matters-affecting Ireland all English parties have combined to outvote and defeat the party claiming to represent Irish Nationalists; that the Leaders of that party frequently complain of having been betrayed, contemptuously ignored, and a policy pursued opposed to that which they advised; that every memorial and resolution sent to the Government, or to any member of the Government, by an Irish corporation, county, borough, or district council, or other representative body on a matter of Irish importance has been similarly treated, and the opposite policy pursued; that all the forms of justice and of civil law have been abrogated; that men not subject to military law have been, in contravention of English Statutes, tried by secret courts-martial, some executed, and many sent to penal servitude where they still are; that many, without charge or trial, have been deported to England,. where they still are; that no public meeting of protest is allowed; that elected public bodies are warned not to call attention to these things; that so much of the public Press as is not silenced by bribes is silenced by Government authority; that Ireland is held and ruled as a conquered country by a large army of occupation; that its appeals to neutral countries, in the absence of constitutional Government, are intercepted and prevented; that the Irish people, forced by these facts to withdraw their representation from Westminster and look elsewhere for justice, now trust and rely upon themselves alone, sinn fein amain; and whether he has any statement to make on the international, the English, or the Irish aspect of this situation?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWI can add nothing to what was said by the Prime Minister in this House on 7th March.