Saturday 12 July 2014

11 July 1914



100 years ago today: the Ulster Provisional Government declares its opposition “to Home Rule and to the present bill which is vicious in principle, inconsistent and unworkable in its details, and disastrous not only to Ireland, but to Great Britain and the Empire” and the Ulstermen are prepared to use any means within their power to resist Home Rule.  The Telegraph correspondent comments that “we are reaching the breaking-point.”  With regards to events in Sarajevo, the Vienna correspondent believes that “Servia will not refuse to fulfil all the just demands of the Monarchy in regard to the outrage at Sarajevo.”

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