17 NOVEMBER 1917, Page 23

(To Taf Enema or as tireerszos."l

Sia,-1 have Just read with profound astonishment your emphatic remarks in last week's Spectator about Ulster and Germany. I e as in Belfast and the neighbourhood in the spring of 1913, and was told by one of the best known and moat respected Unionist ladies in Belfast that if Great Britain should throw over the Ulster Protestants they intended to call in the German Emperor

as the champion of the Protestant liberties of Europe. During the same period I saw reports in the Belfast newspapers of similar remarks made publicly at Unionist meetings in Porladown and other places. I never heard this matter referred to by a !lone. Ruler, but from the statements of Unioniste alone I returned from Ireland quite convinced that an appeal to Germany was a rem, abed part of the Ulster programme. I of course assume that th, outbreak of the war brought this scheme to a definite end. But I cannot read your statement that it is a Home Rule lie without