RIVAL ARMIES OF ULSTER

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2158, 26 May 1914, Page 5

RIVAL ARMIES OF ULSTER

ACUTE-TENSiONi

WAffiNGFOETHEPAS«:K

THE Bill;

GUARDED FRONTIERS.

POLICE PARTIES ORDERED

TO STATIONS.

By ToleEtrnuh—Press AesMiation-Copyrlght "Tlinca" and Sydaov "Sua" Ssrrt«c». t.OtJd-5-K, May 24. There is tremendous tension'in Ulster. It is feared that the rival volunteer armies will conio into collision on Tuesday evening next, when tho Home Huio Hill will ho passed by tho House of Commons'_nnder the Parliament Act. : Both armies are feverishly prepariii«. 'l'hoy are fully supplied with arms and ammunition for active servke. Fifty motor-cars distributed rifles tost : oycniiig from County Down to.various centres in Fermanagh. Two hundred Ulster Covenantors were out all night guarding- certain houses. The police, on bicycles, unsuccessfully attempted to tra«e the motors, but the numbers of the cars were changed in some cases and the numbers of Nationalist cars substituted. Every commando.!' of a Covenantor Regiment has received an order reading: "In view of tfts pdssibiliiy of Nationalist rowdyism on Ws fmssing of tho Homo'Rula Bill, cemmafirters are authorisatl to take Wfcatovcr steps thsy dssm atlvisaSte to mais» tain peaoo, prewerit disloyal proeessions, tho bßrrilng of ban&rcs, or displays taking plzm to Unionist territory tiirocighqat tlisir e?m' mand." Tho Covenanters' official organ, "Tho .TJlsterinan." coutaina an anneal siancd by the officials of various societies in the North of Ireland to fellow-trade unionists' in Britain to assist them in tho crisis, assuring them, that tho democracy of Ulster is soul and body with the Ulster movement

(Press Association.) ' THE NATIONALIST AftMY

OFFICIALLY RECOGNISED BY . HIBERNIAN SOCIETY. London, May 24. | The Dublin correspotitat of-the "Ob- j server" states that tho Hibernian So- j oicty has officially recognised tho Na- j tion'alist volunteer movement, which• is ] daily growing. Mr. Devlin, M.P., who first regarded tho movement as a nienwie to tile Nationalists' machine, has now decided to identify tho msehrao with the volunteer movement. . TO PREVENT A BREACH. BOTH SIDES TAKING MEASURES. (Rec. May SO, 0.4.5 a.m.) LcntfPTt, May 35. The "Unionist volunteers in Belfast aro getting ready to to called out in esse of emergency. It fs intended thai they shall bo used exclusively . to prevent provocativo incursions to Unionist districts. Both sides arc taking mca'stires to prevent disturbances vhe» tjie Hoiwe RideBill is passed. The Soman Catholic clergy aro active, awl- aro osteroising a restraining influence. Specially selected policsv constables have bceii armed with rifle* in West Moath County, v'liafo they had xm/kvgono special training, at'd h.avo left in tho direction of Drrry. Thirty of tlio constabulary have been ordered to Ross.

Tlio "Deny Times," Belfast, observes that tho passing of tho. Home Rttk Bill "will create a much more serious situntion hero thafi is commonly believed. Cordons of voitwitce-rs- will be thrown across the streets, which fwm the boundary between the Nationalists and the Unionists, and nobody will bo able to penetrate beyond the lines unless furnished with "a pass* Th-a measures which have be eft taken constitute- a more serious challenge to the Government's authority than the landing''of anus. If tho Government riooa not take measures to suppress the- volunteers' supremacy, theso volunteers ivill hii in full possession of parts of tho town, Every man of the Belfast rejri-iScuts to-day has a rifle."

POLICE LEAVE STOPPED. ORDBR-S FOB SPECIAL, DUTY. "Times" and Sydjje? "Sisft" RarviCee>, • (Rcc. May 25, 5.43 p.m.) Lcnrion, Ma/ 23. The bayonets wlti-cli won? smssort by tlio Customs ai Dublin last Thursday have been released and bonded to the consignee. The Royal Irish Constabttlary at Bos- ■ common liavo received fli'dcrs that all leavo lias beeii Stopped, us thoy aire wanted for duty its tlio couutios of Donegal and Fermanagh. They will have no rifles, carrying only their batons. A number of police from the Lcinster provincial counties we also being drafted to "Ulster. WILL PARLIAMENT DISSOLVE? RUMOURED STATE 03? CABINET'S MIND. Lonslan, May 24. "Reynolds's Newspaper" asserts on good authority that an incresßtiiK number of members of the Cabinet favour a dissolution. (Rcc. May 25, 10,30 p.ni.) London, May 2.5, Tlio "Daily Chronicle" (Liberal), discussing thn Homo Ruio Amending 1 LiH. forecasts the altimnte disappearance of tho time limit for Ulster. Cabitiot is determined that I'mliamefit will not dissolve during 1914. ROYAL DUKE AS IRISH VSGSROY. "SOUNDtNC!" THE SOKE OF CONNMjGfIT, "Timpa" and SydneT "H-vjtx" Ssrvic-ca. (Rcc. May 5.4-5 p.m.) lomiort, &l s 'Hip "Times" s-avs tluit / v H soumlrd H.R.H. lb? Prike of Cornaught as to his witljngwss to ftoccpl llic Lord Ijioittennnt'ship of Irfljand. His Royal ilislmess will not ;;ij<' bis answer until lie leaves Canada and coniers wst.li tlio King. Tho "Times" adds that rt is sot generally known that the lato Queen \ ictoiia rrcomnK'iMlpd bis appointment to Ireland, but abandoned tV- idea, brnauso of the risk of involving the, Crown m party policies. The foolmn )i) lro.niio just now is that tli! 1 Lord Ijicul.riiant should not take- sides.