ULSTER COVENANT

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1551, 21 September 1912, Page 5

ULSTER COVENANT

MORE DEMONSTRATIONS. UNIONISTS ARMED WITH DUMMY RIFLESWARLIKE TALK. Br Telccraph-Press AcsociaHon-CoDJTiEhI (R«c. September 20, 9.30 p.m.) ' r ,/ London, September 20. ■wic Ulster covcminl to Ik; .signuil :it a monster meeting at Belfast on September 28, sets forth :— "Being convinced that Home Hiilo would be subversive of civil nnd religious freedom, destructive of citizenship, and perilous to Hie unity of tho Empire, "Ulstermen pledge themselves to stand together in defence of equal citizenship in tho United Kingdom, and to adopt all means to defeat the presont conspiracy. They will refuse to recognise the authority of an Irish Parliament, being confident that God will defend the right."

The members of ono Unionist club, armed with dummy rifles, and of another in khaki uniforms, paraded Lisburn, where Sir Edward Carson was addressing a vast open-air audience, and rend the covenant. "

Sir Edward Carson declared that if tho Government persisted in its fatuous and nefarious policy he and those associated with him would go to any lengths in' defenco of Ireland.

In the disturbances in the Sandy How district of Belfast, tho hooligans threw volleys of stones at windows and wrecked Italian ice-cream sliops. They nlso looted grocery and spirit stores. Unionist Club men assisted the police to restore order. Elsewhere, mill girls took part in several scrimmages, catching hold of each other's hair and fighting violently until tho constabulary intervened. MOCK SOLEMNITY. "DAILY NEWS" CONTRAST. (Itec. September 20, 9.30 p.m.) London, September 20. The "Daily News" (Libora) contrasts what it describes as the mock solemnity of the Tllsteicovenant and the mock heroics of Sir Edward Carson's rhetoric with Lord Diinraven's letter, which, it points out, incidentally appealed to Irish Unionists and Nationalists to meet jointly and draft tho most just and : suitable Home Eu!o Constitution.