Last Saturday Sir Edward Carson arrived at Belfast on another
visit to Ulster, and in the afternoon inspected a parade of the East Belfast Regiment of the Ulster Volunteer Force. East Belfast is the characteristically working-class district of the city. The special correspondent of the Times, after describing the impressive marching of the men, the transport waggons, and the motor-cars which have been lent for service with the Force, says : "This was no new spectacle. It has been going on, and has been recorded, for many months, but a large number of Englishmen still seem to be unaware of the extraordinary earnestness and determination with which a whole community is devoting every moment of its leisure time to making ready for the day of trial." At the head of the battalions were a Member of Parliament, a doctor, a clerk, a journalist, a grocer, and a stockbroker. Sir Edward Carson in the course of his address to the men said "We were told the other day by a Cabinet Minister that there were men in the Radical Party who are anxious to see if the red blood would really flow. I tell them that if they dare to come and attack us the red blood will certainly flow."
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