4 JUNE 1921, Page 2

Those who suggest that North-East Ulster is an absurdly small

province to have self-government are ill-informed. North- East Ulster—the Six-County Area—had in 1911 a population of 1,250,531. She had almost as many white people—within 26,000, to be exact—as the Union of South Africa.. She had more people than the Dominion of New Zealand. She had as many people as Queensland, South Australia, and Tasmania taken together. She had five times as many people as the Dominion of Newfoundland. She had as many people as British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan combined. No one dreams of suggesting that these Dominions and Provinces are not populous enough to have Parliaments and Ministries. Protestant Ulster, with, her Northern Parliament, is not a eubjeot for statistical ridicule.