CABINET ULTIMATUM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19477, 21 December 1925, Page 9

CABINET ULTIMATUM

TO STRIKING POLICE NOT ACCEPTABLE HAVE TO BE BURNED OUT By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright LONDON, 18. The Ulster Cabinet has delivered an ultimatum to the striking constabulary that unless they return to duty on Saturday morning they will be disbanded and all pay forfeited. Belfast headquarters specials declare that the men will stand fast till burned out. A message to this effect has been circulated among all platoons by despatch riders. The “Morning Post” suggests that the Ulster Government should get in touch with the Dominions and tind if there was any prospect of organising a colony of special constables, and stating that hero are wide empty spaces in Australia and New Zealand and elsewhere, where a hard and toilsome but healthy life can bo led. This would be better than subsisting on the dole from Britain. SUCCESSFUL CONFERENCE GOVERNMENT’S TERMS ACCEPTED. MONTH’S EXTRA PAY. Received December 20, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 18. The Belfast police strike is virtually ended as the result of a conference in Londonderry, at which, the Government's terms were accepted, the strikers sending a deputation to ask for a month’s extra pay for all Belfast and Enniskillen men who had already yield ALL OVER STRIKE COMPLETELY ENDED. Received December 20, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 19. The special constables’ strike has completely ended throughout Ulster. The men resumed duty and the barracks wero handed over to their officers.