Actively Arming.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 76, 20 March 1914, Page 5

Actively Arming.

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

THE ARMY ACT.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Prjbs Association.) London, March 19.

The guards have been strengthened at Armagh barracks, the Antrim garrison headquarters, and at Carrickfergus Castle, which is. used as a Government storehortse of arms and ammunition.

The staff is actively dispatching ammunition to the various military centres in Ireland.

The Daily Telegraph says that if the Lords amend the Army Act forbidding the employment of troops in Ulster, and make the Act a dead letter, the Government can utilise naval forces to suppress any disturbance in Ulster when Home Rule is passed.

THE MOTION OF CENSURE.

London, March 19

Captain. D. Y. Pirio lias given notice of an amendment te Mr Bonar Law's proposed, motion of censure in favor of the exclusion of Ulster until a general system of devolution of the United Kingdom is provided. THE ULSTER VOLUNTEERS. Londofi, March 19. The military correspondent of the Observer says that nightly drills are held of the Ulster volunteers, and declares that it is probable that the whole of the volunteers could <>e mobilised in Ulster in a shorter time than the British regulars would require to mobilise. Ulster possesses 110,000 covenanters in the prime of life, divided into 85 battalions, organised on a democratic basis, electing their own officers, snd having signalling corps able to reach the furthest point of Ulster in four hours. Eighty thousand rifles are available, the bulk of them being entrusted in parcels of five to selected men dispersed in all parts, together with ammunition, and ready immediately. < . ,

INCREASED POLICE ACT!, .. -.

(Received 8.40 a.m.) London, March -,19. The increased police surveillance if causing exasperation in Ulster.