IRELAND

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1921, Page 5

IRELAND

ULSTER DISMAYED. THE PRICE OF VICTORY. THE POSITION REVIEWED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Feb. 5. A special correspondent at Belfast states that Ulster is the most cocksure community in Britain. It now presents a face of dismay. They have won, but have not realised the consequence of winnings In the first place they find themselves leaderless. During Sir Edward Carson’s ascendancy Ulster politics have not produced great men. The brainiest were content to leave all to Sir E. Carson and to throw their own energy into business. Commercial circles speak unenthusiastically of the representative politicians. Sir J. Craig is popular, but inspires no confidence. Belfast has lost faith in the belief that it can do better than anywhere else in whatever it puts its hand to. Trade conditions have hit very hard. *The linen lords are not credited with foresight, and, with half their machines idle, how can bhey say: They put us in power? We made Belfast what it is. The Carsonites taught the mob how to be dangerous. Politicians are endeavoring to rope in Labor with the Protestants and Moderates, but realise that the alliance between labor and capital is uncertain. Probably Sir J. Craig’s supporters wish for a powerful Catholic* party as an honest non-wrecking opposition. Belfast no longer feels enormously superior financially. The best business people admit that the south will pay its share of the 18 millions easier than the north. Agricultural Ireland is among the most solvent communities in Europe, and most of the agricultural are southern. Industrial Ireland is harder hit from the economic boycott of the 10 counties than ever it expected.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. RAID IN QUEENSTOWN. ALL UNDER . FORTY DETAINED. Received Feb. 7. 7.35 p.m. London, Feb. 7. The military systematically searched Queenstown, practically every house being entered. AH persons under forty were detained and escorted to the barracks, where they assembled for identification purposes.—Aus.-N.Z. Assn. CARSON APPEALS TO LABOR. London, Feb. G. Sir E. Carson, addressing a Labor demonstration in Belfast, said he believed the English Laborites’ support of Sinn Fein assassins were merely due to ignorance. The alleged cruelties of the auxiliaries were over emphasised and the ambushes in which the auxiliaries were bayonetted and shot with dumdums were under stressed. Referring to the election he said that until an alternative was found they had better stick to the little Welshman.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.