New-York tribune., 1921-06-22
ReIfast Decked in Flags

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BELFAST June 81 (By The Associ-
ated Press) Belfast tonight is be-
tagged and festooned for the coming
tomorrow of the King and the Queen.
This will be the first time the mon
archs have visited Ireland since they
went to Dublin decade ago. The
King has not been in Belfast since he
came here twenty years ago as Duke
of York.
Decorations are being displayed all
along the royal route from Donegal
Quay to the City Hall, where the Par
lament is to be opened, and thence to
Ulster Hall, where loyal addresses are
to be presented in the business dis
trict in Ballymacarrett Street, on ships
in the harbor, on the docks of the biz
shipbuilding companies and, in fact,
wherever Protestants predominate.
But in the Falls Road, the Short
Strand, Old Lodge Road and other ma
tionalist and Sim Fein quarters there
is no bunting to break Che monotony
OF the drab, gray buildings, for the ma
tionalists and Sinn F6iners are lgnor-
ing what is considered by other parts
of the populace as one of the greatest
events in the history OF their country.
Scotland YARD on Guard
High Street, Castle Place and Done
gal Place, through which the royal
procession will pass on it's way to the
City Hall, and City Hall Square Itself
and Bedford Place and Franklin Street,
through which the King and Queen will
proceed on the way to Ulster Hall, are
one great mass of color, in which the
Union Jack and the Orange of Ulster
predominant.
The route over which they will pass
will be lined by least 1000 troops
standing shoulder to shoulder with
bayoneted rifles at prcsant arms. The
troops will be reinforc d by some 1000
members of the Royl Irish Constab-
ulary.
Heavy beam ratings have been
erected on posts driven several feet
into the pavement along the line of
march. 1t would take great pressure
to break down these ratings.
In the city there is strong force
OF duXlllafleS ana also DatCall0n OF
men from Scotland Yard, who by to-
night will know virtually every person
that is to occupy window or a seat
in the grandstand to view the process
sion tomorrow.
Short Distance to Travel
The royal couple will have only
few hundred yards to travel to the
City Hall from the royal yacht which
brings them here from Holyhead, but
the procession will be an imposing one,
with the royal coach as the center of
interest. The King and the Queen will
be accompanied by Edward Short, the
Secretary for Home Affairs. and the
Lord Lieutenant, surrounded by the
brilliantly uniformed officers and man
of the Tenth Hussars, The Ulster
Rifles, who also participated in the re-
hearsal, gave a territorial significance
to the proceedings, while particu-
larly striking feature of this mornings
affair was the appearance of the spe
cially-created hodyeuard Of men of the
Royal Irish Constabulary, all of them
measuring at least six feet in height.
3 Viscount Fitzalar, the Lord Lieuten-
ant; Sir Hamar Greenwood, Chief Sec
retary for Ireland; Lady Carson and
others, who are to participate in the
proceedings, arrived to-day and, with
the members of the two houses of Par
lament, will be entertained at dinner
tonight by Sir James Craig, the Ulster
Premier.
Among the honors to be conferred in