AMAZING RUMOURS EFFICIENCY OF ULSTER'S VOLUNTEERS
GOVERNMENT ALARMED. SURPRISE SCHEME GIVEN AWAY. UTILISING THE NAVY. (Received March 26, 8.15 a.m.) LONDON, 25th March. The Daily Telegraph, The Times, and other newspapers state that amazing rumours are in circulation to the effect that the Government, impressed with the reports -of the increasing efficiency of the Ulster volunteers, determined that the volunteers should be surprised and disarmed. Mr. Churchill, it is said, suggested that the troops should be moved secretly and rapidly, that warships should be stationed at the Liffey, and the third battle squadron ordered to Lamlauh, at the Isle of Arran. .another rumour was that the fourth destroyer division had sailed from Southampton for an unknown destination. The rumours further state that Sir Arthur Paget and Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Jasper Blunt, Ordnance Officer at Dublin, at a conference of officers revealed the scheme, and that wirele&s messages stopped the movements of battleships, and on Saturday the destroyer division returned to Southampton.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 72, 26 March 1914, Page 7
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160AMAZING RUMOURS EFFICIENCY OF ULSTER'S VOLUNTEERS Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 72, 26 March 1914, Page 7
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