ote, 201 note, 222 note, 223 note, 238, 271 note, 272 note
Archdale, E.M., 35;
Chairman of the Standing Committee, 35;
Minister for Agriculture, 282
Armagh, military depot, 175, 176
Armaghdale, Lord, 263;
signs the Covenant, 122:
_see_ Lonsdale
Armistice, the, 275
Army, British, sympathy with Ulster Loyalists, 187-189
Arran, Isle of, 175
Asquith, Rt. Hon. H.H.,
on the opposition of Ulster to Home Rule, 1, 2;
at the Albert Hall, 21;
Hull, 24;
Reading, 24;
Bury St. Edmunds, 25;
opinion of Sir E. Carson's speech, 133;
at Ladybank, 154;
Manchester, 166;
policy on the Ulster Question, 167-170;
on the Curragh Incident, 180, 182;
Secretary of State for War, 184;
promises an Amending Bill, 221;
on the landing of arms, 221;
at the Buckingham Palace Conference, 227;
on the postponement of the Amending Bill, 228, 230;
defence of Home Rule Bill, 235;
in Dublin, 244;
on the settlement of the Irish question, 245;
on the national danger, 266
_Attentive_, H.M.S., 178
Austrian rifles, 198

Baird, J.D., at Belfast, 81
Balfour, Rt. Hon. A.J.,
at Belfast, 13, 81;
on election tactics, 25;
on exclusion of Ulster, 95;
resigns leadership of the Unionist Party, 60;
how regarded in Ulster, 61;
message from, 115;
the "peccant paragraphs," 181
Balfour, Lord, of Burleigh, signs the British Covenant, 170
Ballycastle, 193
Ballykinler, training camp, 237
Ballymacarret, 225
Ballymena, meeting at, 108
Ballymoney, meeting at, 158
Ballyroney, meeting at, 108
_Balmerino_, s.s., 208, 209
Balmoral, Belfast, meeting at, 79-86, 101
Bangor, 214, 219
Barrie, H.T., 257
Bates, Richard Dawson, Secretary of the Ulster Unionist Council, 35, 121;
organises demonstration, 111;
on board a tender, 214;
Minister for Home Affairs, 282;
knighthood, 284
Bedford, Duke of,
Chairman of the British League for the support of Ulster, 147
Belfast, 46;
Convention of 1892, 32-34, 109;
meetings at, 52, 78, 157;
services on Ulster Day, 117;
City Hall, 119, 283;
Covenant signed, 119-122;
drill hall, opened, 148;
riots, 151;
review of the Ulster Volunteer Force at, 163;
Customs Authorities, stratagem against, 217;
reception of the King and Queen, 283
Belfast Lough, 46, 175, 211, 212
_Belfast Newsletter_, 102 note, 111
Benn, Sir John, 53
Beresford, Lord Charles,
at Belfast, 81, 109;
at the Ulster Club, 125;
Liverpool, 127;
member of a Committee of t