SIR E. SHACKLETON
KING DESIRES HIS EXPEDITION TO PROCEED. LONDON, sth August. Sir Ernest Shackleton offered his services to the King, who desired him to proceed on his Antarctic expedition, and presented him with a silken Union Jack. STRICT CENSORSHIP HOSPITAL SHIP. NATIONALIST AND ULSTER VOLUNTEERS. LONDON,- sth August. Censorship is eliminating all refer-, ences to movements of troops, -warships, and local forces. The Admiralty is converting the Orient Company s Ophir into a hospital ship. The Nationalist Volunteers' Committee express .complete readiness to co-
operate with Ulster volunteers for the defence of Ireland. Complete arrangements have been made at Grimsby to receive naval woundods, the schools being utilised as hospitals. [The Ophir, in which the King an .d Queen visited Australasia in 1901. is a steamer of 6814 tons gross register, built in 1891, and is 465 ft long, 53.4 ft in breadth, and 34.1 ft in depth.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 33, 7 August 1914, Page 7
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