Irish Situation

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 12, 2 June 1914, Page 5

Irish Situation

NATIONALISTS TAKE A HAND. ■MILITARY EVOLUTIONS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 1, 10.45 p.m. London, June 1. The procession of Nationalist volunteers was a mile long. It included a band of trained nurses in Red Cross uniform. At Celtic Park a. seriesi of evolutions was performed with great alertness and precision. Several speeches were delivered. i According to the Dublin Sunday Independent, the Nationalist volunteers of Ulster total 41,000, Leinster 42,000, Minister 27,000, and Connaught 16,500. Enrolment is progressing at the rate of five thousand weekly. Two companies have been formed at Achillisland, where the whole drill commands aTe carried out in Gaelic. ' Mr. O'Connor states that the incidents at The Cnrragh gave the first impulse to the present Nationalist volunteer movement. NATIONALISTS PREPARED TO ACT. . MAINTAINING THE BILL THE STATUTE BOOK. PLAIN WARNING TO UNIONISTS. Received I, 11.40 p.m. London, June 1. Mr. Lundon, M.P., in a speech at Limerick City, said that Mr. Redmond had sent him to organise the Nationalist volunteers. He intended to ask them to help and keep Home Rule on the Statute Book. If tliey couldn't have peace without excluding Ulster for an indefinite period they would be prepared to act if such a peace were to be enforced upon them. When the Tories returned' to office they possibly would attempt to give Ulster better terms, but the Nationalists could point to their volunteers and tell the Tories: "You leave the Bill on the Statute Book or else—well, they all knew what the 'else' meant. Whether they had to face Sir Edward Carson or England armed they would be ready."