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...that there is, counting police and specials, a bobby for every six families in Ulster. He further declared that the money was being used for the "support of Orange ascendancy," and said that, if parliamentary etiquette permitted it, he would, "characterize with an ugly word" the methods of the Belfast Government in illegally extracting money from the British Treasury...
...Life of Sidney Colvin; the stupidest, an interpretation of the poet by Prof. H. Clement Notcutt of Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Other famed men of letters who have tried unsuccessfully to write the truth about Keats are: Matthew Arnold, Algernon Swinburne, James Russell Lowell, Stephen Brooke, the Earl of Belfast, Lord Houghton, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey. In 1853, Keats was included in The Lives of the Illustrious; in 1857, he achieved the severe immortality of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
Died. The Rev. John J. Roche, 100, "oldest priest in the world"; in Belfast, Ireland. He attended the funeral of Pope Gregory...
After the arrest at Londonderry of Eamonn de Valera, President of the Irish "Republic" (TIME, Nov. 3) the police removed him under strong guard to Belfast, where he was tried and condemned to one month's imprisonment, although the maximum term of incarceration prescribed is two years...
...Belfast, Sir James Craig, Premier of Northern Ireland, sounded an ominous note when he declared, in a speech, that, if the decision of the Boundary Commission were unacceptable to the Ulster Parliament and no other honorable solution could be found, he would resign, place himself at the head of the people as their chosen leader to defend any territory which the Boundary Commission might wish to filch from them...