ULSTER'S THREAT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 8 December 1913, Page 5

ULSTER'S THREAT.

A ROYAL PROCLAMATION.

PROHIBITING IMPORTATION OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION.

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, December 6.

A Royal Proclamation has heen published in the Gazette, signed by the Privy Council on Thursday last, prohibiting the importation of arms, ammunition, and gunpowder into lfeiand.

Unionist members of the House of Commons at Belfast" had decided to organiso a motor service, to be placed at disposal of the Provisional Government for tiTe transport of troops in the event of hostilities. A second Proclamation prohibits coastwise carriage.

Neither proclamation applies to articles intended for snorting purposes, or other than warlike purposes.

ULSTER WELL ARMED

NEWSPAPER COMMENT.

(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, December 6. It is reported that 80,000 arms are already stored, and a number of revolvers have been, purchased by the Belfavst Unionists and Nationalists during the past fifteen months. Tradesmen in Londonderry booked orders last spring for three thousand revolvers. Government agents recently making inquiries in Ulster, reported that this is apart from local supplies, but ammunition is short. The Unionists in Ulster claim that they have sufficient rifles and several Maxims have "arrived.

The Chronicle hopes that the arms Proclamation will promptly be followed by action against ariiy officers using rebellious language, and states that a more outrageous spectacle was never presented tTTan that of influential Conservatives endeavouring to sap the "loyalty and undermine the discipline of the army. The Chronicle rejoices that Lords Derby and Selborne. and Sir '. Edward Carson have markedly dissociated themselves from such violet anarchical courses.