ULSTER AND FREE STATE.
THE BOUNDARY ISSUE. NOT A YARD TO 0E YIELDED. REJECTION OF COMMISSION. Br Telegraph— Association— Copyright (Received 4.50 p.m.) A. and N.Z. " ! LONDON. Oct. 13. Sir James Craig, Premier of Northern Ireland, speaking at Newtown Bulla, said that he would nob assent under any pressure to appoint a person to sit on a commission to discuss the border question. There was no border question. Not one yard of Ulster territory would be handed over to a foreign flag. Their enemies might trample over his grave' before they stole a yard of it. Addressing the garrison at Fermanagh, Sir James Craig said that he had made arrangements that if they were attacked and required the assistance of the British Army they would get it. The great strength of Ulster , lay in the fact that no matter how the personnol of the British Government might change, Ulster would never be deprived of assistance when required.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18530, 15 October 1923, Page 7
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