The Bayonet's Point.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 63, 6 July 1914, Page 5

The Bayonet's Point.

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND.

A DISSATISFIED CAPTAIN.

[P.Y EIIOTBIO TeLEGBAPH—COPTBIGHIj, [United Pbeb* Abbooiation.] London, July 5.

Captain Fitzgerald Lombard has resigned his command of the Nationalist battalion at Kingstown. He argues that the volunteers are leaderless as far as highly-trained officers are concerned. He hopes the Unionist, and Nationalist volunteers will form the beginning of a regular Territorial force.

THE COERCION OF ULSTER. (Received 9.15 a.m.) Sydney, July 6. The Archbishop and the Dean of Sydney, in letters to the press, defend themselves from the criticisms of Mr Griffith, Minister of Works, in connection with their petition against the proposed coersion of Ulster. TROUBLE ON BOTH SIDES. (Received 9.30 a.m.) London, July 5.

Sir Edward Carson addressed 10,000 at Herne Hill. He said he assumed the Ministers, as honest men, would explain to the King when they asked him to sign the Bill that his signature would cause a civil commotion in the North of Ireland, and that his refusal to sign would cause a commotion in the South and West. If, he said, Ulster ever went with the Irish Government it would be of her own free will, and not at the bayonet’s point. Ulster wanted no makeshift Government, no sexennium limit, and no county limit. ARMED MEN IN THE STREETS OF BELFAST. A South Belfast regiment of Ulster volunteers marched in the streets of Belfast, carrying rifles and bayonets.