Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-05
MICHAEL COLLINS, MAKES
 VISIT TO NORTH IRELAND

Armagh, lster, Ireland, Sept. 4, (By the A. P.)-Michael Collins, Sim Fein minister of finance and comman- der in chief of the Irish republican army, arrived here from Dublin soon after noon today on his first visit to north Ireland to find the city festoened with the Sim Fein colors. His fol lowers from all over county Armagh, including delegations from various civ il bodies, as well as the lord mayor of Londonderry and representatives of the Monaghan, Tyrone and Fermanagh county councils were here to greet him. There were also thousands of and villages, including many from Belfast who came by special train.
 MT. Collins had a sort of triumphal progress from Dublin, receptions being arranged for him at Dundalk, Castle Blayney, Ready before he entered Armagh accompanied by Harry J. Bo- land, secretary to Ramon De Valera, and Sean Milroy, chairman of the Sim Fein Clubs or Armagh. One of his officers wore a Sam Browne Belt in which was a loaded revolver. Collins Emphatic Speaker. MT Collins proved a most emphatic l speaker both in Irish and English and
 is somewhat reminiscent of Theodore | Roosevelt when he brings his jaws to- gether, but speaks without a single ges- l ture. He kept his audience entranced for nearly an hour as he denounced the par tition of Ireland and appealed to Armagh to follow Tyrone and Fermanagh in de- nouncing allegiance to the northern par 1 liament, thus striking the last blow against English control of Ireland" He touched very gingerly upon the peace negotiations, explaining that at the l present moment he must choose his words. England" he said, lis handing out parliaments like Carnegie gave away | libraries they are the sort of medicine
 which cures neither the north nor the | south"
 It was obvious from Mir Lloyd Georges | letters, he declared, that the northern parliament was being used as an excuse to keep the north and the south asunder
 but the Orangemen, who had been used
 as tools. might find shat they stood in the way of an agreement which was ir Engla1d's interest; and then they would
 be thrown aside.
 Freedom for Ireland is coming; no
 body can stop it." he exclaimed. T.
 Ulster, with her tottering parliament. go l
 there: We won't desert you''
 The commander of the Irish republican
 army had a great reception. and when h,
 appeared the audience of 5000 rose anC
 sang the Soldiers Song" Referring tt
 MT. Lloyd Georges "sneer" that nor,
 Welsh was talked in Wales than Irisl
 in Ireland, he pointed out that Ireland
 had been speaking under a ban for cen
 turies, but now in Armagh alone 5.O0t
 persons spoke the Irish language. ant
 10000 were learning it.
 Mir. Collins denounced the atreatmen Of Sim Feiners in the jails and intern ment camps, especially Spike Island , which, he said, had been a reception hos pital for the most loathsome diseases Q modern times before the Sim Fei1f pris oners were taken there. and he asked fo an independent inquiry
 Says Ulster is Totterinr. i. Listers claims that she had enjoye prosperity under English rule he de
 clared to be untrue. "The emipratio . figures" he said, Ego to show that nor
 Protestants than Catholics left th northern counties to escape it." The fax
 ation Of Ulster to pay England wbic
 ne estimated at ten pounds per head h asserted, was sufficient to bring the IT , seerites into united Ireland but. if . did not, the line of custom houses wouif e England," said MT. Collins, wants n truce today because she wants to sav - her face"
 Owen O. Duffy, chief liasion officer fo y the northern district, in dealing with JJ s ster, was more emphatic than his chief d IT Ulster fails to come into unite d Ireland, he declared, I've will tighte ,. the boycott. If that is not successful. " t vii bring lead against them. Ulste t cannot remain bridgehead against th . advance of the nation"
 e On the platform. which was dAco-.+. e with American and Sim Fein flags, we, e leaders of all sections of Ireland as wa |. as Harry J. Roland, MT. De valera
 secretary and Sean Milroy. chairman s 'ne slnn Fein clubs of Armagh.
 1T The Orangemen held a Black chant. }, in the Presbyterian church to6sy h,.4 p'; r marehing to the church. avoided the Sin