ULSTER IN ARMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2133, 27 April 1914, Page 5

ULSTER IN ARMS

TEST MP.RH TCATIfiM

RUMOURS Of A POLICE

ATTACK

VOLUNTEERS RESPOND TO CALL

LANDING OF RIFLES

BROUGHT ABOUT BY STRATEGY

Sj Teleufaph-Prfrss AraocJaltoa'-Copyrlßht (Use. April 26, 5.5. p.m.) . , , lentfpn, April 25. A test mobilisation «f the Volunteers wiss mried out at Belfast amid mild nmimirs last night. Great alacrit? a.ivd discipline ivere shown. Twelve- hours' rations were brought by the men. _ There was anxiety in Belfast, befcau-So-it was rmi;.(Mir«d that the authorities were planning' a pwlieo attack on ib volunteer organisation. Ten thousand men in Belfast awl twenty thousandelsewhere readily mobilised, a«d the test was pronounced a complete' success. Tho force included ambiiliuice and signalling corps. Tho men responding to the call were not aware of tlioir leaders' intentions. The-, alarm Wβ partly explained when tho Volunteers W«ro orfered for tlw purposes of n test of -eflieiciwy to assume that the nolice were preparing to., raid. " . ' Tboauth-orities apjiarently expected that gmwtmijing woitJd be attempted, and tliopolico ejosely watohed a coal stoa-nwf iii tlso harbour, Meanwhile tho Volunteers in tho vicinity watched tl-ic polica. TJso EsoJiango Toiogfaph Gompawy's Belfast correspondent states that the Fanny's Hamburg eo-nsignineiit of seven thousand rifles landed m.-tftrco- lots at Lanw, Baagor, and -Sonagh late Jasi nigl-it, and woro distributed oariy to-day throughout Ulster, The Gordon Volunteers- severed tarno from ct>ii)»iiiiii'catioji with tho o-Utsido wotW, and tho cargo was transfcr«id to aliather steadier, -sent to sea again, and transhipped to two -smaller strainers'. One- of these, containing niHe-ia.iths ei the rifles, precepted to Cirue, whore the poife-j wftro .poworloss. spoctator.s :) lieihg tmabfo to oonimuniento with Belfast, Unloading was began at 10 o'eioolt, and tflrin-mdtoa at 3 o'eldck. Occr one Imiidrocl jnotexws besidfis motor bfrie-s wore and by thein thij rifles woro dispatched -tg parts. Tho first consignment' rfiacluid Co'tMity Tj-reiio at 4 o'clock. ' Meanwhile a- big forco of Volunteers with wngofia hnd assembled otitiAghi as a blind at BeKa.st docks. ■

SOUtHEFIN COtiSIDNMENTS, NOT "Times" and Sy«to&v "§w Seirtit*. wn-r , /,'■■ Mfidon, April 28, Wlnle tho Gotcrnmbirt fi-as watching tho mystery of tile ships oft tho north' coast of Ireland, largo- consignments of arms wera smuggled into the eeymtry through 'the southern liarbotirs, These were not' intended for the XSlstertnen. '

IF CIV!!, V/AR STARTED, . GOVEEJGOXsfT'S INTENTION. : t ii ■ tt t-ondon, April 24. In tlie Heivse of Coifi.moirs,-M'r. F. D. Aciand, Pflrluarnßntary SeeTotftry to the Joreign Office, in- «].# to a question, saw! t-lieto ffas krtrad to U e Gosecal Moctioii before the Dublin Pnrßaraejit Was osta-blislied. If civil war started or a provisional Government was sot tin tn Ulster hotovepu tho tnno tk> Bill passed .-Hid tho time it came iiito opera' tion, tho Ulster force would be met by Government force. . ' - Tho motion of constifjj <ni &o Govcm-' ffioftt in comwetion with the "alWd Ulster plot will Jjo debatotj gji TuesJqv and Wednesday next in tho Sotiso of CbftifflpTis, Notice has already been girth of over Wty questions requestmg Mr. AsquMt for_ further inforni.atfeji on iho Wsiet ineident.

INQUIRY JJEMAN&ED. M.R, CSA3IBERUii\S RESOLUTION {Mas. Ipril M, 5.5 p.m.) ■ , „ LOndoil, April 25. In tho House of Commons, Mr. Austen Oliranberlain has given notice of tho following resolution:—"that fa view of tho seriousness of tho Government's re-eently-corstempkited natal and military■nfflvraumt agnihst Ulster, ami 'the incompleteness' and inaccuracy of Miniitors' statements ami .tho Government's failure to frankly with the situs* there shoulil bo a Ml and impartial inquiry into all tho circUfflstdjjces. o

TRUE Sf ORY. WHEN THE SAME WAS UP, (Hoc. April 26, 5,5 p.m.) London, April 2a. v Captain Walter Vwasour FaW, TJiiioiiist inembor for Andowr Division of Hajjts, speaking at A-iwlover, said :— "A true -story is going tho rounds thnt a jiokd Fwld-Jlafshal soist for a. general at the Ww Office mi. ilem-mdei that ho sliotiH ffialso a lilan of campaign against Ulster. Tho goilcfal replied, "I'll to damned if I do,' and the Fiolcl'MarShal without a tforA turned en his heel, went to Colonel Seek, Secretary for Wnr, and told him that tluj ganso v.'es up."