At Last!

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 272, 24 April 1914, Page 5

At Last!

THE "ATTACK" ON ULSTER.

A SENSATIONAL WHITK PAPER

PUBLICATION OF ARMY AND ADMIRALTY ORDERS.

BATTLESHIP TO EMBARK TROOPS.

AND LAND THEM AT CARIMCK-

FERGUS.

NAVY TO ASSIST LAND FORCES.

GENERAL PAGET'S ORDERS,

J DUTY, OR DISMISSAL. Hy Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 23, 8.40 p.m. ! London. April 2'i. A revised White Paper includes the Admiralty orders to the third battle ■squadron and fourth destroyer flotilla I to go to'Lamlash, the Pathfinder and j Atic.-itive to Gibraltar, and the Royal Arthur to Kingstown on March. 21 to embark troops for Carrickfergus. The I Altcnlivc's captain was directed to lan.t in plain clothes, and to go to Carrick- ' fergiis and confer with the commander of Ho:.vrood barracks regarding the eventual co-operation of the Army and Navy. Tiie orders added: Carriekfergus must be defended, even if naval guns are nei".. »

I Paget's written Jsli>l:'iiii:n!. of April 2 contains details Hi ;i eorilcrcnce of seven 'brigadiers and senior ufliccrs, whereat he explained the Government's plans and asked whether !i'' cu.ihl rely on them all in certain e\< nihilities, but lie did not intend qtie-.Uuii to be passed on to the subordinates. General Paget explained that lie would obtain concessions foi the oflicers who might feel deeply, and with Field-Marshal French's help, officers domiciled in Ulster would be permitted to disappear, but others not prepared to carry out their duties would be dismissed.

TIIF, PREMIER IN IGNORANCE.

OF HIS COLLEAGUES' PLANS

UNTiL TOO LATE,

.Received 23, 10.55 p.m. London, April ?.'l

I General Paget added that Colonel i Seelv hoped there would be few «H-es J of ollicers claiming exemption. General Paget states that he does not know hrrtv the misunderstanding arose, but it is easy to see that it was a natural step to infer that something in the nature of an alternative was to be putto the officers; at any rate, certain officers left the conference under a v. loin.' impression. General Paget concludes t:\ accepting the responsibility lie!' th.e misapprehension.

T!ii' Times states that the White Paper has established the fact that serious operations were in full swing when Mr. Asquith intervened, and that Mr. Asquith was ignorant of his colleagues' plans until Jhe crisis they provoked came to a lio.au.

GENERAL PAGET'S ORDERS.

KEPI/Y TO ULSTER MANIFESTO.

A DENIAL.

London, April ii,

In I In; House of Commons, .Sir Kin--Icj.lv Cooke, M.P. for Devonporl. qucstiiuicd Mr. Churchill oii a private telegram from the Right Hon. Jonathan Hi.g-j. Governor of the Bank of Ireland. Mr. Churchill desired to know the source of Sir Kinlock Cooke's informant and later said there was no intlie interrogation was merely a bow drawn at a venture.

Mr. Asquith, in reply to Mr. Terrell, stated that General Paget denied thai he had informed the afUcer3 that the police, at Belfast had received orders to seize the depots of arms. Deprecating enquiries as to private correspondence Mr. Churchill read a telegram from Colonel Hogg, of tlip •Mb Hussars. Colonel Hogg, with Goaeral Cough's knowledge, stated that the majority of the oflicers were prepared for dismissal, but were willing to preserve order, provided no olVcnsive action was "taken against Ulsler. lie appealed to Mr. Churchill for sensible handling of the difficulty. I Mr. Churchill did not reply.

Mr. Asquith, in the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Butcher vcgardm;: tlic Admiralty's tcle-fjruiiir- to the commander of tin- Third Battle Squadron "i! 'March 1!) and to the commander ~; l-':ir Home Fleet on March 20, said lie lii-i-a-me aware of these on the ilsl, and, :>t ?)!<• instance, the orders were countermanded.