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Show ilil'S SPEECH READ IN ULSTER Congratulates Parliament for Manner in Which Changes Were Made BELtFAOT, March 14. (By the Associated As-sociated Press) The Ulster parliament parlia-ment convened today. The king's speech opening the session slated: that the leal process of transferring the various servldes In northern re-1 land from British control to thrt ol 1 the Ulster government was now complete, com-plete, but regretted that the transfer of the staff and the allocation of property and recorcs :o trie govern-1 ment lepartments had not broceeded as expeditiously. The speech continued contin-ued : Pi lCEFUL EFFORTS "I congratulate you on the manner, in which .in spite of these obstacles. j the departments have been broughl I rapidly Into smooth working order. The spirit of conciliation shown In. northern In land in tne settlement of Industrial disputes lp tending toward I a more satisfactory state of affairs " j The king expressed hope that means would soon be devised enabling thv government departments to cope with! the difficulty of the administrative problems, and stated the projected legislation Included conferring of pov, -era necessary to prevent crime, secure peace and maintain order. LONG OASUAITX MM Belfast's casualty list from the activities ac-tivities of gunmen and bomb throw-ers throw-ers In the last in weeks totals 83 dead' .and 157 serlOUSl) WOUnded, accord-1 ing to the Northern Whig, which fie.' dares this is "relatively more terrible than for the whole year 19 21" The Ust would have been greatly i swollen, the newspaper adds, if all those who received bullet wounds' were included. It points out as the I worst feature of the recent outbreaks' the number ot women and rhildren, I Including babies, who were struck by chance bullets or bomb splintery j oo I |