PRINCE’S VISIT TO ULSTER

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 17 November 1932, Page 5

PRINCE’S VISIT TO ULSTER

BEDFAST PREPARES WELCOME. CITY GAY WITH FLAGS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, Nov. 16. The Prince of Wales left Euston station to-day en route to Ireland to open Ulster’s new Parliament buildings. A Union Jack flying on the public baths in Falls Road, Belfast, was torn down last night. The Police removed Republican posters protecting against the visit of the Prince and dental ned two women. A Belfast message says gav flags are'flying in readiness for the Prince’s visit. Thousands of visitors from all parts of Ulster are crowding the streets. Nearly everyone is wearing prince of Wales, feathers. The streets are heavily barricaded to marshall the dense crowds along the processional route. Every precaution has been taken to ensure that there 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 London to-night and wjll he near him throughout the visit. 'The “Daily Mail’s” Belfast correspondent says that reports of the Prince’s visit are stirring the hearts of people like a pati'iotic sacrament because Ulster is hemmed in by hostile territory and is an “outpost of the Empire” m an even truer sense than in the case of 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 VTtries will demolish the whispering campaigns following various modifications of the Royal programme. Even the Prince’s desire owing to the unemployment that expense on municipal decorations be avoided has been represented by anti-British influence as an insw.lt to Ulster.