RIFLES FOR ULSTER
SEIZED AT DUBLIN
ADDRESSED TO A PEER
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, June 7.
A furniture van, consigned to Lord Farnham, Cavan, wa s seized aboard a steamer at Dublin. It contained five hundred rifles.
Lord Farnham denies all knowledge of. the consignment. The * authorities believe that the •rifles form part of a consignment of six thousand Italian rifles. The whdereaboxits of the) balance ia not known..- , ( '. [A cable received on Friday s tated that- drilling is proceeding unceasingly throughout the Unionist counties in Ulster. A corps of 500. flag and wireless signaller s has been fdrmed, with half a dozen stations round the Belfast Lough, and headquarters in town. Ambulance nursing services have also been organised. Thou-; sands of efficient magazine rifles, similar to the type of those seized in' Belfast by the Customs authorities recently, have already been imported.] .. "
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 June 1913, Page 5
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145RIFLES FOR ULSTER Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 June 1913, Page 5
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