Second Edition HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 58, 14 July 1913, Page 6

Second Edition HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

RIOTS IX BELFAST

THE LOYALISTS' PROGRAMME

[CBy Electric Telegraph—Cor hught [United Press Association.] (Received 9.16 a.m.) London, July 13.

At the Orange festival at Belfast, opposing mobs in York Street mutually stoned, each other in ' the early hours of the riot, which lasted for an hour. The police summoned reinforcements. Bottles were thrown and revolvers fired, and several policemen and civilians were injured before the mobs dispersed.

Fifty thousand marched in ' procession to Captain Craig's residence, and adopted a resolution that their duty was to complete all the preparations to resist by force the decrees on liehalf of the Nationalist Parliament. Sir Edward Carson was present as the bearer of Mr Bona;' Law's message that whatever steps the Ulster loyalists might feel compelled to take, either constitutional or ultimately unconstitutional, they would have the whole Unionist party under his leadership behind them. Sir Edward Carson declared that Home Rule would never become law in Ulster. If the Bill passed, the loyalists would assume provisional government and refuse to pay direct taxes.

SYMPATHY FROM SYDNEY

Sydney, July 14

Many speeches in condemnation of Home Rule, predicting disaster if carried, were made at the Twelfth of July celebrations'. ,