17 JANUARY 1914, Page 1

At Belfast on Friday week Mr. Charles Craig announced that

the Ulster Indemnity Fund already exceeded the million pounds for which the Ulster Unionist Council had asked. He added that the Force now numbered almost 100,000 men. We notice that it has become the fashion in Liberal newspapers lately to say that the hearts of Ulster business men are not is resistance, and that they would accept any compromise on Home Rule rather than suffer the ruinous losses that civil war would mean. We wonder what class of men the Liberal newspapers suppose has guaranteed this huge fund, if not the business men.