The Mater Women's Unionist Council held their third annual meeting
in Belfast on Tuesday. The thoroughness and magnitude of their preparations for resistance are fully borne out in the Annual Report. The women's covenant was signed by two hundred and thirty-four thousand Ulster women, more than one hundred and twenty thousand of whom are members of the Council. In furtherance of the Volunteer movement, special attention has been paid to nursing, signalling, and postal work. A Volunteer Medical Corps has been formed on the Red Cross plan, and first-aid and ambulance classes have been held all over the province, while it is asserted that an efficient postal and telegraphic service could be run by women for the whole of Ulster. Sir Edward Carson, who addressed the meeting, said that he knew that the women of Ulster were behind their men and were prepared to play as noble a part. It was one of the greatest signs of the justice of their cause and one of the greatest assurances of victory that, if anything, the women recognized almost more than the men that they too must make any and every sacrifice to see this thing through to the end. A resolution was passed affirming the unabated loyalty of the Unionist women of Ulster to the pledge of Ulster Day and recording their resolve zealously and constantly to continue in the pursuance of their cause.
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