VISIT TO ULSTER

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1932, Page 5

VISIT TO ULSTER

OF PRINCE OF WALES

OPPOSITION OF REPUBLICANS.

(United Press Association- -By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

LONDON, November 16.

The Prince of Wales left Euston Station to open Ulster’s new Parliament Buildings. A Union Jack flying on the public -baths, at the Falls Road, Belfast, was tom down last night. The police have removed Republican posters in Belfast, protesting agaimt the Prince’s visit, and have detained two women.

Gay flags are flying here in readiness for the Prince of Wales’ visit tomorrow to open, the Parliament Building. Thousands have arrived from all parts of Ulster, crowding in the streets, and nearly everyone wearing Prince of Wales feathers. The .streets are heavily barricaded to marshal dense crowds along the processional route, and every .precaution has been taken to ensure there will be no “incident” to mar the visit.

Four officers of the Special Branch of Scotland Yard are already in Belfast. Six more travelled with the Prince when he left Loudon to-night, and they will be near him throughout his visit.

The “Daily Mail’s” Belfast correspondent says: “Reports.of the Prince of Wales’, visit are stirring the' .hearts of the .people like a patriotic sacrament, because' Ulster is hemmed in by hostile territory, and is, an “outpost of Empire” in an even truer sense than the remotest territories. Ulster is, moreover, subject to continual challenge on the right to remain British. Nevertheless an enthusiastic welcome accorded to the Prince of Wales will demolish the whispering campaigns following on various modifications of the roVal programme. Even the Prince o,f Wales’ desire, owing to the unemoloyment, that expense or municipal decorations be avoided, has been represented by the anti-British influences as an insult to Ulster.”

TUMULTUOUS WELCOME.

FROM IMMENSE CROWDS,

PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS

OPENED 1 .

(Received this day at. 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY, November, lfi. Immense crowds assembled at Belfast to-day from all parts of Ulster to greet the Prince of Wales, who received a tumultuous welcome when he landed on the quayside from the Ulster Queen. The Prince proceeded immediately bo the new 1 Parliament Buildings, where he performed the opening ceremony, through dense crowds and gaily decorated streets. During the ceremony, the Prince stated it wins his father’s earnest nrnver that they should meet the difficulties of the conference and world as * well as their own special problems with the courage, tenacity, loyalty and devotion for which Northern Irishmen were famous. The Prince of Wales later proceeded to the City Ha.ll where an address of welcome w,as delivered. He will stay in Ulster for three days.