GATES OF DERRY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13299, 7 February 1914, Page 10

GATES OF DERRY.

BURNING IN EFFIGY OF LUNDY. LONDONDERRY/ Dec. IS. Unusual precautions were observed hero to-day at tho annual celebrations of the shutting of the gateS of Londonderry ago inst the Irish. Jacobites. . The great feature -'qf the day is 'the. ..burning m effigy of ! the traitor Lundy, which need after all . provoke ', no resentment \on the part , of <the' Nationalists. Nevertheless, m view ?pf .the. bitterness of - fooling between Catholio, and Protestant ttiat 'was revealed last. August, it. was decided to confine the, soldiers to bar- ; racks* 411 order that, they might be avail., able instantly if required. ' , < Lundy was burnt at dusk without any breach, of the peace : having occurred: Throughout the day prominent Union-* ists m the town had been busy estab; lishing safeguards against a ;_ecurj:enjce of disorder; for instance, the members of the Rosemount Band, round whom 'the fight raged m August, were persuaded to retire from active participation m the proceedings before nightfall, and thus the greatest danger was-, averted, Tho young man of the band assembled on parade and then returned to their homes attended by a bodyguard oi 80 volunteers, all, I have no doubt, armed with revolvers.. At ah early hour tbe. streets were well supplied with . police, but there ;wa~* little or no evidence of JfatipnaliatJ activity.