DERRY UNDER ARMS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1831, 18 August 1913, Page 5

DERRY UNDER ARMS.

, DEFIANT RIOTERS. POLICE ORDERED TO SHOOT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Co m-tIeM London, August 15. The police at Londonderry luavo been instructed to shoot if rioting recurs and warnings cro ignored. Three hundred troop 9 ore quartered in tho town, in addition to largo bodies of constabulary drafted from neighbouring towns. 'FURTHER DISTURBANCES. ' CRec. August 17, 5.5 p.m.) London. .August 10. Further disturbances have occurred in Londonderry. A. policeman was rounded by a bullet.

Whatever Orangoisni may bo political*'l to bo accounted to it for righteousness that Orange week each year it brings a splash of colour into tlio dingiest quarters of Belfast. Every lodge that can afford it is unfurling new banners, great spreads ten feet square, ablaze witlh all the hues of' the rainbow. 111 the side streets the roof-tops nre as crowded as the footpaths with agilo youths stringing ropes of coloured paper or festoons of orange lilies and sweet-william, flowers sacred to tho victor of the Boyne, from chimney-pot to chimney-pot. A storn ntual dominates tlio construction ( of Orange a,relies, and novelties in design would bo regarded as blasphemy. You always. havo a.s a, .centre-piece a glaring oleograph of Kill;; William 111 on a ramping white charger, flanked by portraits of the King and Disraeli (though on this occasion there is a tendency to substitute for these Sir Edward Carson and Captain Craig, and Mr. P. E. Smith also qets some show with an Orange sash about his shoulders). In some street* ' portentous erections aro slung to symbolise the gates of Derry, and there are tho usual devices of the sword laid across an open Bible, Jacob's ladders, and five-pointed stars, with mottoes,, of which somo are quite unexceptionable, such as "Civil and Telisions liberty," and "No ascendancy." These arches a,re- thickest in the streets that abut on Nationalist territory. There the Orange lilies aro most lavishly spread, the inscriptions are mere provocative, and battered effifries of Mr. Redmond and Mr. Devlin'dangl? in mid-air. The din of fifo 3 and drums all night long makes sleep impossible, and youthful braves, like knights before th.Mr investiture, keep watch and ward b".=ido bonfires in expectation of a raid. For some years back the Nationalists have held themselves well in han;l, but tliera was a time when skirmishes in this debatable land were the rule, ret the exception, during the early days of July, and many a rc>b!o structure, portraits, devices, and all, lias rarr.e tonnling to the ground in- ruins ~by the priniitivo. agency of a.n iron bar tied to the end of a rope. Thcro is a story told 1 that 011 _l:lie night be Cove Omduriiian, when Kitchener's troops lav on their arms behind their fra.il zareba of thorn bushes, momentarily awaiting.a Dervish onslaught, an English soldier who complained of tho nerve-rack-ing suspense, was silenced by a Belfastcomrade with the enigmatical remark, "Man, it's naetliin' like waitin' for tho Fenians to pull down the arclics on the night before the Twelfth." 11