20 APRIL 1918, Page 1

We have only one criticism to make. It must take

the form of a question. Why, we ask the nine signatories, is North-East Ulster to be the only part of the United Kingdom to which Federal- km is not to be applied ? If Wales is to be one of the Federal Units, why not the Six-County Area ? In the Six-County Area prevail all the conditions which, if Federalism is adopted, make good the claim to be a unit. The area is big enough, populous enough, and rich enough to be a State. It differs in religion from the rest of Ireland. If is of different race, has different political, social, and spiritual ideals, and only has not a different language because the Sinn Feiners have not yet succeeded in their efforts to substitute the Gaelic for the English tongue.