LOOM OF CIVIL WAR.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1864, 25 September 1913, Page 7

LOOM OF CIVIL WAR.

ESTER'S CITIZEN ARMY.

GROWING IN STRENGTH.

ANXIETY OF ENGLISH PRESS.®

PROSPECT OP COMPROMISE.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

London, September 23. Sir Edward Carson and General Sir William Adair (Sir Edward's AdjutantGeneral) inspected several contingents of Ulster Covenanters; also _ many nurses and motor corps tuid dispatch carriers.

A largo building at Belfast, formerly used as a factory, has now Deen converted into a barraoks, where nightly sovcral hundred workers aro being drilled into a disciplined force. Tho Citizen Army is growing daily. Thero are regular parades in open streets and on tho drill ground. Many old soldiers havo volunteered as drill instructors. Tho "Pall Mall Gazette" (Unionist) says it is important that communications should be informally exchanged between the Ministerial and Opposition leaders. Tho prospects of an attempt at a compromise havo improved. The "Westminster Gazette" (Liberal) declares that it is the business of tno Government 'to stand firm against threats, while renewing the offer to discuss a settlement with all opponents.

THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

(Rec. September 25, 0.10 a.m.) London, September 24. Five hundred delegates attended the Unionist Conference at Belfast to-day, and considered the report of tho Commission of Five in favour of the formation of a Provisional Government for Ulster. Tho indications aro that_ tho plans will be ratified with enthusiasm. According to tho "Daily Mail," the Ulster volunteer force now exceeds 50,000 men.

"AN HONOURABLE SETTLEMENT." (Rec. September 24, 11.15 p.m.) London, September 24. Tho "Daily Chroniclo" admits that tho "Pall Mall Gazette" is manfully striving for an honourable settlement of tho Homo Rulo difficulty, "but," it adds, "no credence is its statements in high Ministerial circles.'