UNIONIST ULSTER

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 271, 12 August 1919, Page 7

UNIONIST ULSTER

REVIVAL OF POLITICAL ACTIVITIES. i

a London, August 9. Sir Edward Carson, presiding at a special meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council in Belfast, stated that ho "had decided to revive their political organisations in Ulster. He will inaugurate his political i campaign in September.— Reuter.

[Sir Edward Carson recently created a sensation, lay a 6peech in Belfast, in which lie threatened to call out the Ulster Volunteers if any attempt were made to deprive the Unionists of one jot or tittlo of their rights to British, citizenship. TJlstermen would have nothing to do with Dominion or any other Homo Rule. 'J'he former was merely a republic camouflaged under another name. The campaign going on in Amer-> ica was fostered by great Roman Catholio funuSj which the Germans would soon jmn in augmenting to stir up anti-Bri' tiah feeling. The whole world's futurfl was dependent on Anglo-American rela< tions, but not even for. Anglo-American friendship would he submit to such a campaign. He said to tho Americans: "You attend to your affairs, -nd we will attend to oars. We will brook no interference from any country, however powerful." Mr. J. H. Clynes, a former member of the Coalition Ministry, subsequently moved the adjournment" of the House of Commons to direct attentioix to the failure of the Government to prosecute Sir Edward Carson- for a recent speech "in which he incited to violence calculated to endanger the. safety of the Realm." Mr. Bonar Law stated that the Law Officers had been consulted, and had advised that no ground existed for taking proceedings against Sir Edward Carson. Tho Attorney-General (Sir Gordon Hewart) emphasised that no law had been broken. The motion for tho adjournment was rejected by 217 votes to 73.J