100 years ago today: There is anxiety regarding the Prime
Minister’s speech on the Amending Bill. The
Ministry are “expected to offer a ‘clean-cut’ without a time-limit” for the
four predominantly Protestant counties and adjoining regions. There is concern that a settlement which
avoids any armed conflict in Ireland is no longer a possibility. The reporter ends by saying “may wisdom,
patience and patriotism prevail in this the gravest hour that the Kingdom has
known for full a hundred years.” Elsewhere
hope is expressed that Servia will agree to the Austrian demands and “prevent the
arising of a grave crisis.”
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