WAR CLOUD OVER ULSTER.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2012, 20 March 1914, Page 7

WAR CLOUD OVER ULSTER.

VOLUNTEER ARMY READY TO . MOBILISE. "INTELLIGENCE AND DASH." GOVERNMENT CITADELS PREPARING By teleerap'h-.Press Assoriation-Oonyi-tJlit "Times" and Sy<in.?.y "SuA" Services, (llee. Mardi 19, 5,3tl p.m.) ~,. lpnddn t March 18. . The ''Times' "military correspondent, who has observed the intelligence and. slash which is, shown at- the inightly drills of the .Ulster voluntieers, deelartss that- it is probable that the whole of the volunteers coti-td fe> ira-H-biJrsotl and conceiittated anywhere in Ulster in a shorter time than tin; British regnhtrs would roquiro to mobilise. MILITARY ACTIVITY IN THE REGULAR FORCES. (Rec. March 1% 1Q.5.5 p.m.) London, March 19. Use -Guards have been strengthened at Armagh Barrivcka, Antrim (iarrison, Headattai-tett, and Citftiekfer-gu s Castle, vvhtoh is used as a Government storehouse- far arms and aiii-munit-ion. Tito staff is actively dispatelii-ng *mnittiiition the various military centres in Ireki.id. Tho "Daily Telegraph" 1 states that if tho House of Lords utnend-s the Army Act. forbidding the employment of regular troops in Ulster, the Act would he a dead letter.. Tho Government in that' event would Utilise the- naval torws to:'-stipprcss -any distu.rbaiie.es in Ulster when tho Ho'ivlo. Rule Bill is passed. .(See, Mareh IS, 10 p.m.) London, March 10. Mr. V. B. Pirie (Liberal) has given notieft of an ametMlinent to Mr. Bniia-r Law's inot.idn censtiriiig tho Government far its'failnr-0 to submit details of tho. Ulster settlement pf-aposals- . Sir, Rj'ie's amendment favmrrs tho oM'vtsiait ef Ulster until a gc-nt?wtl system of d<7yolution has been itwugufaibecl in tho United Kingdom has been provided.