THE ULSTER SITUATION.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13892, 24 December 1913, Page 5

THE ULSTER SITUATION.

PRAYERS FOR PEACE- v

THE ARMS PROCLAMATION

A STATEMENT DENIED

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rJffe Bishop of London, in view of i tho sSfcwitiyn- in Ulster; suthorisetl the ■ reading: of is colEect next Sunday for deliverance from' ilie seriottSt danger, and disciml' threatening in Ireland, feo'gother w«*bia.:solem» service cf ; intercession. He has afeff authorised the introduction into tire Lftany of » prayer for preservation against the- calamity of

civil war. The Bishop of Durham tend leaders of varkmis Nonconformist churches have issued an infe^denomihatiorial appear for prayers next Sunday- for peace in Ireland andr South Afi'ica, wisdom in rulers, and;. a> spirit of brotherly love among the people. The arras proclamation Avas issued under tho'Customs Act,, which cannot cover the movement of goods from one part of the United Kingdom to another. The second praclamation set. fortlv tho powers of Customs official's in the matter of seizure of arms intended for ultimate exportation from the United Kingdom.

Sir John Simon, Solicitor-General, denies that the Government has been advised that the procianmtibn. is,,ultra vires.