Nationalist Volunteers.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 59, 1 July 1914, Page 5

Nationalist Volunteers.

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. MR REDMOND'S NOMINEES. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] Times anu Sydney Sun Services. London, June 30. Mr Redmond's nominees on me committees of the National volunteers comprise four Catholic clergymen, three members of Parliament (including Mr Devlin), the Lord Mayor of Dublin, several provincial mayors, Mr Nugent (of the Hibernian Society), Mr Hutchinson (of the National Order of Foresters), and three Dublin barristers.

An association has been) started in Dublin with the object of giving assistance to the volunteers.

A SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC. London, June 30. A hundred armed Lister volunteers guarded the Sunday School picnic at Innisrush, in consequence of the rector receiving threatening letters of Nationalist origin. ACCUSED OF BEINC DISLOYAL. Sydney, June 30. As the outcome of the Home Rule controversy in the columns of the Daily Telegraph between the Grand Master of the Loyal Orange Lodge and Mr D. O'Brien, president of the Hibernian Society, Mr O'Brien has commenced an action claiming £SOO damages against the Daily Telegraph for allegedly falsely and maliciously accusing him of being a disloyal subject. RAISINC IRELAND. INTO A GREAT NATION. (Received 9 a.m.) London, Juno 30.

Colonel Maurice Moore, while inspecting the Nationalist volunteers at Athenry, said the immediate purpose of the movement was Home Rule, but the spirit animating them / was tho spirit of Wolfe, Tone, and Emmett, of the Fenians, and the men of the '4B's and '67's. This was the spirit which would raise Ireland into a great nation.