BLOODSHED AND RIOT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1348, 27 January 1912, Page 5

BLOODSHED AND RIOT.

NEWSPAPER FORECASTS. MR. CHURCHILL'S VISIT TO BELFAST. EXCITEMENT IN IRELAND. Bj TelecriDh—Prcss Assocfatiou—Gopyrtchl London, January 25. Mr. Winston Churchill persists in his visit to Belfast. Tho Master of Elibank (Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury) accompajiies him. Many newspapers foitcast bloodshed nnd riot. ORANGEMEN'S FEELINGS. London, January 25. Mr. Winston Churchill has written to Lord Londonderry, statins that while ho is determined to speak at Belfast he will forgo the use of Ulster Hall rather than arouse the Orangemen's feelings. IRISH UNIONISTS ACTIVE. London, January 25. Many Unionist Clubs in Ireland are arranging to send members to Belfast to prevent Mr, Winston Churchill speaking. INCONVENIENT DAT. London, January 25. Tho Belfast Harbour Commissioners, in replying to Mr. Churchill's suggestion that he should inspect the harbour docks, have replied that February 9 is not a convenient day. Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is to speak in Belfast on February 8. THE USE OF TROOPS. (Bee. January 26, 9.5 p.m.) London, January 26. Unofficial reports state that the Belfast Harbour Board desires to defer Mr. Churchill's inspection until political feeling is calmer. "The Times's" Dublin correspondent states that it is understood that tho Irish Executive are averse to the employment of troops, fearing that if the Unionists resisted there would be much bloodshed and disorder, while if they yielded to force majeure, it would enable them to prove that Home Rule was only thrust upon Ulster at the bayonet's point. There will still be great risks if Mr. Churchill speaks elsewhere than at Ulster Hall. •"UNPATRIOTIC BELLOWINGS." (Rec. January 26, 9.5 p.m.) • London, January 26. Mr. John Redmond, Leader of the Nationalist party, .in an article in-"Rey-nolds's Newspaper," declares that there is no terror in Ulster of tho Orangemen's threats, which are only insolent bluff. They are loyal only in their own bigoted interests. England would be a nation of fools and paltroons if it allowed itself to bo diverted by unpatriotic bellowings from the gTeat policy of binding Ireland tj the Empire.

Mr. Churchill, in his letter to Lord Londonderry, emphasised the latter's responsibility if rioting occurred. Still it was his (Mr. Churchill's) duty to keep his. promise to the Ulster Liberals, and to, assert tho right of freo speech. If the main objection was the uso of Ulster Hall, he would ask tho Liberal Association to choose whatever hall would least arouse the ill-feeling of Oran'c'emen.