Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-24
IRELAND ELECT|NG
A NEW PARL lament
AS MISSILES FLY
Withdrawal Of Troops Signal for
Resumption of HostiIities Be-
tween Nationals and Unions.
BABES I'M ARMS VOTE

BY Associated Press to Every Evening.
Belfast, May "a Elections for the
new parliaments ia Ireland under the
Irish home rule bill were carrfed out
throughout Ireland today. but only in
the north Of ireland were ballots ca 81
ns the nominations for the Southern
Irish parliament were made without
contest.
Ulster wss astir early this morning
to vote for the members Of the nepv
parliament under the system OF proper
fional representation.
The people had been Appealed 70 by
leaders 10 vote early to prevent per
sonation" and at most of the polling
booths crowds were waiting at a. m.
the opening hour. For either side to
bring in personators would not be diff
hcult as in such districts as Baliy-
macarrct the Nationali-ts will not even
have watchers, as they say il would be
suicide for any OF their number TO enter
the polling booths there. The ITnionisis
on the other hand. would not feel COM
Portable in Falls Road. although there
were plenty OF police and military there
10 protect them.
Counting OF the votes VIII not COM
fnence until ? O'Clock "Wednesday morn
Ing, and will continue until & O'Clock in
the evening. at which time il will be
adjourned until Thursday.
II II possible the Belfast results viii
be known "Wednesday night but the
others viii not be in for several days.
Belfast, May 24-six counties Of
northern Ireland. Antrim. Armagh.
Down. Fernlanagh. Londonderry and
OF Londonderry and Bella IT engaged TO-
day IN an election OF members of the
parliament OF northern ireland. This
body. created by the Irish act. recently
passed By the British parliament. viii
contain 50 members.
Voting began at O'Clock this morn
ing and government authorities had
taken elaborate precautions TO prevent
disorder. Fighting between the politi-
cal factions engaged in the campaign
was, however, apprehended in this city
and in many districts where the people
were called TO the polls. All licensed
public houses were closed. and all fairs
and markets arranged for today were
postponed.
Electioneerfng, which had been en-
thusiastic from the very beginning Of
the campaign reached = eliminating
point yesterday when Sir James Craig,
premier designate for Ulster. issued an
appeal to members Of the Unionist
party to Ely the Union Jack" AS a
result of his appeal virtually every
Unionist house in Belfast displayed the
British flag last night, even the side
walks and lamp posts being brilliant
with the British colors..
The NationaIists, who adopted as
tl.1s, ziz he rxf no r-sf+
have fought hard battle and Joseph |
Devlin has led his party in addressing |
throughout the counties where !
voting took place today. Women took |
an active part in the campaign.
Even Belfast, used 10 hot political /
nights, had never seen such an election /
1t was more OF a fight TO /
get to the polls ahead, of opponents |
than a stand up battle, but this rush l
led TO some nasty incidents, especially i
in the Cork street and Old Lodge area /
near the docks. As soon as the military /
were withdrawn from the streets at i
) o'clock this morning. when the cur
few ended, the rival factions appeared
At the doors of their homes with their
women folks TO proceed to the polls.
Bricks and stones commenced to fly
scross the streets and a few shots Were |
ired before the police arrived to dis
,erse the disputants.
one constable was seriously injured
~ a flying brick.
Donegal Pass. one OF the polling sta
ions for unionists in West Belfast, was
hours before the time for vot-
ng of nationalists. Another long
inc Of nationalists waited outside. thus
blocking the way to their opponents.
This occurred tn many places where one
,ide or the other was the stronger and
t was evident much personation was
.oing on. One woman arrived at a poll
ng station half an hour after It opened
md found her vote had already been
.ast.
There also were large number of
hild voters whose votes could not be
efused They ranged from child OF
wp and one half years who was just
BILE To lisp II vote for Moies,r candi-
late in South Belfast. to boys and girls
4 sixteen and seventeen years