IRISH LOYALISTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 35, 10 August 1934, Page 13

IRISH LOYALISTS

INCREASING DISTRESS

APPEAL TO ENGLAND

(From "Tlio Post's" Representative.) LONDON, June 28.

The Marquess of Salisbury, presiding at .the- annual meeting of the Southern Irish Loyalists' Belief Association, in London, described the distress in Iroj land as growing and tlio situation as j deplorable. It affected a.ll classes, and I reacted upon the loyalists and ex-sur-i vicemen as much as anyone else. | "Undoubtedly the political situation >in Ireland is a matter of the first importaace at the moment," ho continued. "Policies are matters for statesmen, but we have to make offorts as far as we can to minimise the effects which the policy of statesmen produces. They produce the wrecks; it is our business, if we can, to provide the salvage. It is almost with a feeling of despair that we contemplate what is going to happen to the ex-servicemen and loyalists in Ireland. They can oell nothing. The great English market, on which they so much depend, is closed to them. They can just live on what they can produce, and then the rate-collector comes round, and nothing is left for them but tb go on to the roadside." LORD CARSON'S APPEAL. Lord Carson wrote a letter, which was read at'.tho meeting. To him it appeared that "unless something is. done by the British! Government there is nothing to save those whoso only crime was that they were loyal to the King from' ejectment from their holdings and absolntc disaster. Surely vro may well ask the British Government and the British people to make some effort to avoid the terrible results of their legislation and to assist their own people, which, unfortunately, we are unable to do, as we have already exhausted our funds in trying to keep, as we did keop, many people from starvation. . ''I find it difficult to understand the frame of mind of the great English people,,who seem to be concerned with countries like Palestine and other places while their neighbours are starving I through the disastrous legislation passed by the Imperial Parliament." Major I. H. G. Whito (secretary) said the association was getting an increasing number of letters asking for relief, j During the past twelve years tho association had put hundreds of people on their feet. Some of tho letters made | terrible reading, because there was absolute starvation in many homes. Tho association had kept alive hundreds of people who would otherwise have died from sheer starvation. Tho necessity for the existence of the association was almost as great today as it had ever been. People were saying, "Wo know we are going to have to go through what we went through in 1921-23, but wo are prepared for it. Is nobody going to save us from the horrors which are coming on us everyday? j