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Show ULSTER UNIONISTS COITIIOE DEFIANT THE ppoVISIONAL GOVERNMENT gTvES CARSON PERMISSION TO ACT AS HE PLEASES. Sir Edward Declares Ulster Is Anx-ious Anx-ious for Pea, But Was Not Go.ng to Accept Peace With Merely Surrendering. Belfast-The "provisional government" govern-ment" formed by the Ulster Union-" Union-" at its first meeting on Friday gave Sir Edward Carson a free hand to take whatever action he may think necessary in calling the Ulster volunteers vol-unteers to arms. The men were declared de-clared ready for mobilization at a mo ment's notice. ,j Sir Edward in a speech declared that the time had come for the loyal-is-.s of Uluster to translate their words into action. He said something must be done to compel the British government govern-ment to make up its mind. Ulster, he concluded, was anxious for peace but was not going to accept peace with surrender. The official report of the meeting meet-ing of the "provisional government' announces that the executive has been irstructed to act in accordance with the spirit of a declaration asserting that the provisional government's "well grounded want of confidence in the bonafides of the imperial government govern-ment compels it to press on with the completion of arrangements to resist by every means in its power every attempt to impose the authority of a home rule parliament on Ulster." A resolution also was adopted expressing ex-pressing willingness to consider any proposal on the home rule questioi. which "recognizes the loyalty of tht Ulster men to the crown and constitution consti-tution and preserves their inalienable rights under the imperial parliament,'' |