RIVAL ARMIES OF ULSTER.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2152, 19 May 1914, Page 5

RIVAL ARMIES OF ULSTER.

GUN-RUNNING FOR THE. NATIONALISTS.-,-:;;^; A BISHOP'S APPEAL.^ FOR THE BROTHERHOOD OF.' THE BRITISH PEOPLE. : ; . By Te'.erraDh—Press Aetsseiation-Conyrieht Lattdon, May 17.' ■.. Despite tlio Customs officers' vigil-: unco, largo consignments "of rifles and ammunition have been landed at various parts of the AVcst Coast of Ireland for tlio Nationalist volunteers. The Limerick County Council lias unanimously passed a resolution supporting tlio Nationalist volunteer move-, meiit. Mr. Lundon, M.P., in supporting the resolution, said that when the Home Rulo Bill was on tlio Statute Book two hundred thousand volunteers wouitl parado in Dublin t.o prevent, the withdrawal of the doarly-ivou measiiro. .. ■ SIR EDWARD CARSON'S FORMULA. (Rec. May 18, 11.15 p.m.) London, May 13. The-"Daily Chronicle" (Liberal), in its political notes, says that there is no gulf betivecn the proposed tinio limit for Ulster and Sir Edward Carson's formula: "Until Parliament otherwise -determines." No Parliament can bind its successor. Thcro is no secur : ity that tlio sis-year limit, even if enacted, would be left intact by a succeeding Parliament, and if tile time limit,goes, any county included in Ul-. ster should 1)6 enabled to enter whenever it wished. -Nobody believes tlnit exclusion will be permanent, inasninch as tlio centripetal force, of a national Parliament is bound Ultimately to draw all Ireland into Homo Rule."

UNITED IRELAND AND- UNITED' EMPIRE. ' (Rcc. May 18, 11.15 p.m.)' Undon, May IS. Dr. Frotlsham (formerly Bishop of North Queensland), in a letter emphasising tho earnestness of ilia Ulster volunteers, apjrenls to all sides to abstain from provocation, which would be almost certain to precipitate a conflict. After watching the wirier growth of Australian citizenship, he (Um Bishop) is inspired by the conviction of an cssciitiai .brotherhood of all the British peoples. If the wedge ho driven in at Ulster, it will tear asunder -the hopes of a united Ireland and a united Emniro.