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Sir – Will you kindly permit me space in the columns of your widely circulating, democratic and nationalist journal to draw the attention of public electors in general, and the League of British Ex-Servicemen in particular, to the brutal and sweated conditions under which ex-servicemen (some of them survivors of the Ulster Divisions, others of them survivors of the 16th and 10th Irish Divisions, who thrashed the Germans on the Somme and covered themselves with renown when fighting for “the rights of small nations” – as they then thought they were – in the blood-and-mud-sodden trenches of France and Flanders, of Suvla and Sedalbar) are forced to work on the Armagh county roads? I am not a labourer in the Armagh council’s employ, and have no “axe to grind”: I merely make this appeal to the Six Counties electors and to the ex-servicemen voters and their friends – in fact, to every honest citizen who loves justice – to make some e
November 20 1923 THOUGH “nothing will be done in the matter of the Ulster boundary until after the election”, we are assured that “at the same time considerable anxiety is felt amongst politicians who are friends of the Six Counties over the question”.
November 9 1923 The Accrington magistrates yesterday committed for trial John Whalley, aged 32, iron fitter, charged with causing grievous bodily harm to, with intent to maim, his five-year-old step-daughter, Agnes Rhodes Wildman, by severing both hands with a razor and also with feloniously wounding, with intent to murder, Sarah Ann Horbury, aged 65, with whom he lodged.
A meeting of Derry nationalists was held in St Columb’s Hall on Sunday evening to consider the position created by recent legislation of the Belfast parliament, imposing intolerable disabilities on the Catholic people within its jurisdiction.