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New Zealand Tablet, 30 December 1920, Page 33

NEW ORANGE BATTLE CRY. "M.IP-i l , )mvU " itL th ° po,ice! ” is the latest war cry of the lie Hast a linemen (says an exchange)*. A Daily Ac ws correspondent writing recently from Bellast reports that the Royal Irish Constabulary in that Joy" 1;; city are now the object of attack on tire part of lilt' 3 ♦ ; ) ' angeinen because apparently the constabulary in Bel fast did not m all cases put the glass to the blind eye (luring the recent Orange outrages there. The Daily News man writes :—• & x- ~“ TI T Orangemen who - ostensibly attacked the Belfast Nationalists in revenge for the murders of policemen in the south are .utterly, antagonistic to the R.I.C. in the north, apparently suspecting them of Sinn Fein sympathies because they refused to stand idly by while the rioters were' mating the Nationalists and burning their houses und r the sacred symbol of .the Union Jack.. Already a. number ol police have been expelled from their houses and their household furniture has been, used to feed Orange bonfires I he new battle-cry in Belfast is not ‘Down with the Gathol.es! but Down with the police and it appears probable that the next outburst of Orange fury will be directed against the police themselves.” ( pf when these armed Orangemen are enrolled us ay ell-disposed persons ’ to assist “in maintaining law and older I*" Ulster they will be able to murder Nationalists and burn their houses without any , room for interference from the R.I.C. Hence the Carsonite anxiety for the enrolment of the “Ulster Volunteers” as an official force in Ulster. • -A/ -v:, yAy u-;--