London, Dec. 30.
The Loyalists of Ulster welcomed with profound satisfaction the British Government's statement on the new Constitution of Eire, said Viscount Craigavon, the Prime Minister o: Northern Ireland, to-day, The presumptuous claim that the Irish Free State, by the new Constitution, had established the right to exercise jurisdiction o: the whole of Ireland, he declared, had received the answer it richly deserved.
All the Loyalists of Ireland, of whom there were many in the South, deeply deplored the affront to H Majesty, that was involved by. the new Constitution, the effect of which, he concluded, was "to strengthen the determination of Ulster to resist all attacks and to draw still closer the bonds between the Mother Country and ourselves,"
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