SINEWS OF WAR.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1866, 27 September 1913, Page 7

SINEWS OF WAR.

ESTER GUARANTEE FUND NOW £300,000. PATRICK FORD DEAD. HEAVY LOSS TO IRISH NATIONALISTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, September 20. The subscriptions to tbo million pounds' guarantee fund to indemnify volunteers and relatives in the caso of injury or death in Ulster following resistance to Homo Rule have reached to nearly a quarter of a million pounds. Tho Marquis of Londonderry and Mr. Liddell (a Belfast manufacturer) have contributed £10,000 apiece, Mr. Henry Musgrave £17,000. Sir Samuel M'Caughoy, M.L.C., New South Wales, has cabled to the treasurer to ask him for any sum required. Sir Edward Carson is on tho vergo of collapso after his efforts, and his doctors have, ordered him to bed. Tho Belfast Unionist Indemnity Guarantee Fund now totals £300,000. The Duko of Abercorn, Lord Lonsdale, Captain Craig, George Preston Flaxspicer, and throe members of tho firm of Workman, Clark and Company, of shipbuilders, have subscribed £10,000 e,acli, while Mr. George L. Mooro has donated £5000. ' 'AN ECONOMIC BLUNDER.'' (Rcc. September 26, 10.30 p.m.) London, September 26. Mr. J. M. Robertson (Liberal member for Tvneside), speaking at Newcastle, declared that Sir Edward Carson's Provincial Government scheme, for Ulster would be an economic blunder, a practical impossibility, and wouldn't bo at work for a week. Tho British Post Office would cease all communication with Sir Edward Carson's party, thus isolating Ulster, and bringing trade to a standstill. "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Rec. September 26, 7.10 p.m.) London, September 26. Discretion has been given the Ulster Committees to admit women whore their services may bo useful. There is a growing feeling amongst the Unionists and Moderate Nationalists that the prospects of a conferenco are improving. . The Irish leader, Patrick Ford, died in New York of pneumonia. Tho "Times" Dublin correspondent says that his death is a beav,y loss to the Nationalists, and that it will make Mr. Redmond still moro anxious to get Home Rule. It is bcliovctl that Ford was_ instrumental iu obtaining a contribution of £3,000,000 to the party funds.