On 'Tuesday by far the greater part of Ireland was
given over to a public holiday as a protest against Conscription. On that same day the Six-County area of •Ulster, in which is a virtually homo- geneous Unionist and Protestant population, carried on its ordinary work—and above all its war work in the factories and• shipyards— with as much pertinacity as on any other day of the year. Could there conceivably be a better illustration of the existence of two Irelands ? We are told that there is really only one Ireland which is indivisible. But if any stranger who knew nothing whatever of 'Irish disputes had visited Ireland on Tuesday he would surely have told himself that the whole range of imagination could not supply a more striking proof that there were fundamental differences between the Twenty-six-County area and the Six-County area than the manner in which Tuesday was spent.
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