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December 8 1923 AT the conclusion of the days declaration at ten oclock last night, the state of parties was as follows:- Conservatives 253, Liberals 152, Labour 192, Others 5.

Sir – Will you kindly permit me space in the columns of your widely circulating, democratic and nationalist journal to draw the attention of public electors in general, and the League of British Ex-Servicemen in particular, to the brutal and sweated conditions under which ex-servicemen (some of them survivors of the Ulster Divisions, others of them survivors of the 16th and 10th Irish Divisions, who thrashed the Germans on the Somme and covered themselves with renown when fighting for &ldq...

November 20 1923 THOUGH “nothing will be done in the matter of the Ulster boundary until after the election”, we are assured that “at the same time considerable anxiety is felt amongst politicians who are friends of the Six Counties over the question”.

November 9 1923 The Accrington magistrates yesterday committed for trial John Whalley, aged 32, iron fitter, charged with causing grievous bodily harm to, with intent to maim, his five-year-old step-daughter, Agnes Rhodes Wildman, by severing both hands with a razor and also with feloniously wounding, with intent to murder, Sarah Ann Horbury, aged 65, with whom he lodged.

A meeting of Derry nationalists was held in St Columb’s Hall on Sunday evening to consider the position created by recent legislation of the Belfast parliament, imposing intolerable disabilities on the Catholic people within its jurisdiction.

Book it in | Black Gully Festival returns for 12th year.

Book it in | Black Gully Festival returns for 12th year.

Book it in | Black Gully Festival returns for 12th year.

October 28 1923 Sir James Craig’s government are fastened, hands and feet, to the wheels of the English Tory chariot; they depend for bare existence on the goodwill of Mr Baldwin’s party.

October 24 1923 I learned yesterday that the impression is gaining strength every day in the General Post Office, Belfast, that the Northern Government has decided to take over the service at the end of March next.