STRIFE IN ULSTER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1507, 1 August 1912, Page 5

STRIFE IN ULSTER.

MANY ASSAULTS IN BELFAST. By Telofcrapli—Press Association—Cop jrijl London, July 30. Mr. Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireluni speaking in tlio House of Commons, sai that eighty assaults had been committi' in Messrs. (Harland And Wolff's shipbuile ing yards at Belfast in a month, five ( them endangering life. A majority t Catholics lvero abstaining from work. Two battalion? of troops had alread been sent to Belfast, and n third was noi being sent. Nearly three thousand men are now id! at Messrs. Rarland and Wolff's yards. The "Daily News" slates that a larg Belfast, firm dismissed all Roman Calho lies, numbering thirty, in their employ and in retalialion Messrs. Jfarland am Wolff are dismissing Orangemen. Mr. Devlin and other Nationalist mem bcrs of the House of Commons are eeiul ing ,£SO for tho relief of workers who art compulsorily idlo in Belfast Mr. Dovlii attributes the situation to the anti-Hom< Rule incitements to violence, which ap peal to the worst passions of bigotry. YARDS OPENING AGAIN. (licc. July ,11, 9.2; i p.m.) London, July 31. Messrs. JTarland and Wolff's men are promising to exert their influence to prevent further disturbances. Those that have taken place were mainly due to disorderly youths. The shipwrights and drillers have been reinstated, and tho other departments will start work again as soon as possible.