Image 1 of The Caldwell watchman (Columbia, La.), December 12, 1913
VOL MVII COLUMBIA LA FRIDAY DECEMIBE 12 11913 ENGLA 0 TR 0 STOEI i CABINET ORDERS IMPORTATION OF ARMS INTO ARELAND STOPPE SEEKS TO SECURE f E Ulster Leaders Declare However That Asquiths LEfforts at Conciliation Came too Late Weetern Newspaper Union News S rvirc LondonThe British cabinet by a royal proclamation prohibiting the im portation of arms and ammunition into Ireland for the first time grasped the nettle of the revolution in Ulster which it had hitherto ignored alhough the followers of Sir Edward Carson for months have been advertising their military preparations in every possi ble way and daring interference with them Almost at the time of publication of the proclamation Premier Asquith made the longest step toward the con ciliation of Ullterites that the govern ment has taken announcing his ac ceptance of the principles of a basis of agreement which Sir Edward Car son suggested in his last speech Demands of Ulsterites These principles are FirstThat the settlement must not be humiliat ing or degrading to Ulster second Ulsters treatment must not be differ ent or exceptional from that meted ont to the other parts of he United Kingdom third Ulster must retain full protection of