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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 71, 20 September 1912, Page 7

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HOOLIGANS BUSY SEVERAL HOUSES WRECKED POLICE USE THEIR BATONS. Bj Telegraph.— Presa Association,— Copyright. LONDON, 19th September. Several houses were wrecked and looted by hooligans while a Unionist Club was parading in the Sandy Row district. Belfast. The police batoned the looters. STORES LOOTED. MILL GIRLS TAKE PART IN SCRIMMAGES. (Received September 20, 10.10 a.m.) N LONDON, 19th September!"" In Sandy Row, the hooligans threw volleys of stones at windows and wrecked Italian ice-cream shops. They also 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 the constabulary intervened. DEMONSTRATION AT ENNISKILLEN. ULSTER WILITsMPLOY FORCE. SO REITERATE^ SIR EDWARD OARSON, LONDON, 19th September. In his speech at the anti-Home Rale demonstration at Enniskillen Sir Edward Carson, M.P.. reiterated the Ulstermen's determination to employ force if necessary to resist a policy which the electors of the United Kingdom had not sanctioned. Lord Hugh Cecil, M.P., stated that Mr. Churchill (First Lord of the Admiralty) saw any number of Home Rule Parliaments, just as intemperate persons sometimes saw snakes. HOME RULE AND IMPERIALISM. LORD DUNRaVeN WRITES TO MR. O'BRIEN. PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. LONDON, 19th September. Lord Dunraven, writing to Mr. William O'Brien, M.P., and leader of the Independent Nationalists, says Home Rule is inseparably connected with Imperialism. Some provision is necessary for autonomy in the domestic affairs of the Empire's component parts ; therefore it is incredible that Ireland can be omitted. He advises dropping the Post Office and Customs from the Bill, as they will only be fruitful of friction. The Bill should provide for proportional representation in order to safeguard the minority. ( He condemns the control of the Nationalist Parliamentary Party by a secret society whose authority is exercised without, the semblance of tolerance or fairplay, and he expresses the fear that the Irish Parliament will be dominated by that secret society. Lord Dtinrayen adds that the most substantial objections of the opponents of Home Rule will not be dispelled until this incubus is removed.