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NEWRY, ARMAGH, AND DOWN.

ROMAN WATHOLIC ENCLAVES.

for its appointment of a member of the Lommission which is to determine its boundary.

STRAINED RELATIONS.

protest

Relations between the, two elements are. In view of the auantoning of the House strained in Newry, and still more in of Commons yesterday with the objecs South Armagh, since the union of of passing a Bill to enable the Gover-hearts" which was so marked in this ment to appoint a member of the Com. region during the early stages of the war mission to determine the boundary gradually gave place to suspicion and tween the two States in Ireland, the hostility. When the L.R.A. sent armed following article recently written by emissaries into this part of Ulster to Special Correspondent of, The Times will excite or compel local sympathizers to be found informative -

harry local Protestants or attack the Once upon a time an Ulster Unionist police, the "Ulster Specials." retaliated, wrote a piece of vaticinatory fiction and reprisals and counter-roprisals cul- entitled The Battle of Newry Bridge" minated in the terrors of Altnaviegh, It prophesied the dreadful results of where, in revenge for the killing of some Home Rule, but, as far as I remember, Catholic labourers on suspicion by the the Ulstermen repelled the invading Specials several Protestant houses were Southrons,

fired and their inmates shot as they tried Today Newry is our of the cities to escape. After hostilities had died claimed from the Government of North-down the political struggle continued. ern Ireland by the Free Staters. Although The Nationalists, or Sinn Feiners, elect- it is the chief Southern seaport of the ed to the Northern Parliament by Newry. Six Counties and is divided between South Down, and South Armagh refused Armagh and Down, to which latter to take the Oath, at the election of the county it belongs administratively. It is Newry Board of Guardians the Nation- n Nationalist stronghold. John Mit alisus refused to stand, as a

дз Sic chell, of Ulster Presbyterian;stnek, ablest against what they described and must trenchant of the Young frames Craig's repudiation of the Anglo- land Journalists of the forties of last Irish Treaty. The Urban District Coan. century, lies buried there. From the ell was dissolved for passing a resolution early days of the Home Rule muvement repudiating the authority of the Belfast to the redistribution of seats under the Parliament and acknowledging that of Act of 1019 it returned Nationalist the Dail Eireann. For the time its func member to the Imperial Parliament. Its tion were made over to a Commissioner. urban council has been in the hands of Rural district ocuncils indulged in. Recently new a Nationalist majority since 1508, and similar manifestations.

held. there can be no question that nearly elections were

Twelve pic-Free three-fourths of its present population Staters were elected against six pro- are Ronian Catholics and would, in Northern councillors at Newry. nearly all cases, vote for inclusion in the twelve signed the statusory Declaration Free State Unionists wat tell you that of Allegiance, first passing a resolution many of them are really que content to that this had been done under duress and remain where they are, but will admit without prejudice to the right of the when questioned that they expect at least inhabitants to opt for inclusion in the 90 per cent of them to vote out of the Free State. In the rural districts many Six Counties in case of a plebiscite. Nationalists refused to stand for election. There is no evidence of any change worth Still there is a certain improvement in mentioning is the relative proportions the relations of the two parties in con- of the Catholic and non-Catholic elements sequence both of the advance in dis- since the Census of 1911, the Inst taken cipline made by the Special Constabu- in Ireland, when the former numbered lary, who, at their first formation, neces- and the latter 3,000. The statendens sarily had many of the defects of an made, with truth as regards some parts irregular force, and of the decline of Ulster. by Northern, propagandists Republican influence in the North... that the Unionist-Protestant element One doubts whether any Northern suffered disproportionately during the political leader wishes to retain Southern Great War owing to their larger recruit-Armagh, which, with the exception of a ment is untrue of Newry and the adfew rural electoral divisions north of the joining districts. According to local line Newtown Hamilton-Newry, is pre- Protestants who rendered great serviet dominantly Catholic. The population to the Empire by organizing and direct wishes to join the South; the soil is ing "recruiting, the local Catholie res poor and the tax revenue low. The town ponse was admirable and Catholic losses of Keady and the rural electoral divi- proportionately heavy. The Protestants sions in the Armagh rural district, on did well, but there is still a feeling of the Free State border, as far as Middle- hostility to some incal Grange leaders town, being Nationalist, might possibly who, though" of military age and officers be exchanged for divisions such na Gilaas- in the Ulster Volunteer. Force, did not lough and Mullyashain Monaghan, which join the British Army.

are largely Protestant. A line drawn roughly from Middletown just north of Keady just south of Newtown Hamilton to the border of Down some three of four miles north of Newry and well to the

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in the main, Protestant opinion is op- posed to the transfer of Newry to the Free State. The local Unionists admitsonth of Poyntz-pass would be as fair a that the Catholics are is a great majority, der as any, assuming that a Boundary but point out that the port is necessary commission held that the economic objec- to the large tracts of Armagh, South ions to the surrender of Newry were Town, and South East Tyrone, which it outweighed by the wishes of a large majo SOMER that Greater part of its rity of the Newry people, and that Newry import trade is with the Six "Counties, was made a free port for imports destin- that the Protestant minority pays a dis-ed for the Six Counties. proportionale shure of the rates, possesses and controls the great majority of the wills and other commercial and financial But the problem of South Down is far undertakings in the town, is the largest more difficult. Assuring that the unit employer of labour. and owns a great selected by the Commissioners were the part of the town. They add that in the Rural (or Urban) District, Warrenpoint SOUTH general interests of the Six Counties, the is numerically a Nationalist-Catholic Newry Canal should remain in Northern area, and so drn Newry No. 1 Rural Dis- bands, even if the Free State boundary triet unit Kilkeel. But the situation is should be advanced into South Armagh (complicated by other than numerical Free State South and Northern Armagh factors Carlingford Lough is a grogru- a bare hillside near Narrow phical boundary, which could not be Water, where the Newry Canal and instered. On the Northern border of Newry River a narrow stream between Newry No. 1 Rural District there are two banks of "alob" (sza-mud) at low tide, electoral divisions such as Hathfryland at high tide a channel under 200 yards which coutain a strong and militant in width, part both counties from town. Protestant majority. There is a Protest A friendly Free State such as. many ant majority of about six to five in the Northern postulats could otherwise in-

Eastern divisions of Kilkeel, including terfere with North-bound imports. It Newcastle, famed for its golf links and appears certain that fully 70 per cent.. its background of mountains; and some perhaps more of the annual coal import six miles north of Kilkeel, above the of wonie 175.000 gross tons is consumed in Silent Valley," are, the Belfast Water the Six Counties. But the partisans of Works; which no Northerner would union with the South aigue that this dream of leaving in Southerh hands. proportion would be greatly diminished Then again there is East Down. The were Newry, South Armagh," and part Nationalists won the Parliamentary of South Down to be transferred in ac-election of 1018 in the new division forin- cordance with the wishes of the majorityed under that name of the Redistribution of their inhabitants, that the Free State of Seats (Ireland) Act of 1918, but would have no interest in crippling the though the Southern end of the Strand- trade of its own port, that the market ford Peninsula is Catholic and there is circle" of Newry is very largely within a strong Catholic enclave with its centre the region claimed by the Southerners, in Downpatrick, the Census of 1911 show- that the great majority of the districted a slight Protestant majority in the served by Newry as a commercial centre whole Downpatrick town, and the area for the distribution of dutiable gonds is economically part of the Belfast re- lies within the Free State, and that, gion. To sum up, a division' which gave' except in coal, the bulk of the trade of South Down (except the Bathfryland the town is with the Free State,

area and the Eastern part of Kilkeel Rural District including the Balfast Water Works) to the Free State might the North would

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