31 MARCH 1917, Page 11

SHORT CUTS TO NOWHERE.

[To DM EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."]

Sra,—Thank you for your glorious article, " Short Cuts to Nowhere," on the Ulster question. You state the Ulster position exactly. But there is another point. Ulster never forgets the interests of the British Empire. She knows, as no Englishman can know, the terrible danger of giving over the whole of Ireland to a

system which would•create an opportunity for the Sinn Fein move- ment to turn Iieland into a base for the enemies of Great Britain. Ulster guards the back-door of the Empire and she knows it.' Nothing will induce her to leave her post.—I am, Sir, &c.,*

ULSTERMAN.