THE ULSTER VOLUNTEERS.
ACCEPTED BY WAR OFFICE, j GERMANS' WONDERFUL ORGAN- * ISATION. LONDON,-September 2. , The War Office has approved of. the scheme for employing the Ulster Volunteers.- ■ - " ' ' " The Belgian Ministers have conveyed to the King the ; respectful and ardent gratitude of Belgium for England's resolute and immediate intervention, A British .trooper, describing th.e battle of last week, said:—'' The French ■ are the ones for them. We are too kind. ; The French go for them 'with the bay-; onet, and you just shut your eyes." An English artist wlio was arrested by the Germans at Namur and released, . describes the splendid organisation of the German army. Columns marched as if on parade, the officers giving like pistol shots. An officer marked his disapproval of a man being slightly out of line by spitting upon him. The transport waggons are marked "Berlin to Paris."
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 180, 4 September 1914, Page 7
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142THE ULSTER VOLUNTEERS. Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 180, 4 September 1914, Page 7
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