AUSTRALIAN-ULSTER UNIT

Grey River Argus, 6 April 1914, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN-ULSTER UNIT

NUMEROUS APPLICATIONS ' F.X-BRITISH OFFICERS JOIN ' I SYDNEY-Mar. 26 ' '"We have been inundated with applications front persons desirous' of loming the Australian-Ulster contingent," said Mi Robinson, president of tlie Lojal Orange Institution when spoken to one the suject last mtrht. "l^cople who' understand the great British principal which underlies the heroijc detern* .nation of Ulster to withptanrl to the very uttermost the insertion' of J\ie thin end of the wedge so cunn^p^lv piepared for the disruption of ttye glorious British trinity know that there is nothing; disloyal or treasonable in the action we are takinjr "To-day." he continued "we receiv p -numerous applications by telegraph by post, and by telephone many of th p m from men who have 'held comn issions in the Imperial arrnv and n;tv\ ' A number of non-commissioned ' 0/ Seen, have alsoAvritten offering theit sc rviccs " Mr. Rpi>inson that thj rx atter, liad been taken up as a Conw 11 tomvealtli movement and ihe contin. pM t6 be raised^ would' be known a« Jti 6 Australian contingent Represeiici ifti v*s from" Victoria and^New Zealand a r,e m ( S.vctncv for the .purpose of dis» c issnig the matter with the executive 0 : the Orange Institution, and gen- ( c ous rhonetaiy support- has been pron ilsed. All the States -will, it' is ex I^Wcted, 1 co-operate m the-movement ; r< The scheme has been under con* ( s deration for some time_," added th^ 1 V resident "but we did not wish to make known until we were 6ure of sue-(f-4S.i We, of course, expect opposite on from a certain quarter although >v hen 'they collected thousands of JP aunds in Australia for Home Rule! hich jstrikes at the root of the peace d iS prosperity oF the- whole Protestant p jpulation of Ireland we raised no outcry' utcry 1 against it. "We are in earnest over this matt« r," dlectared Mr lUi^i^n ic and" '& re confident that we can raise a fe trong ' rontingent. able and willing U t stand - by- the side « of |heir comP »|:riots and co-rehgiomsts to resist tj us' threatened merference with the f ivil and religious ( righs of ihe most >val and law-abiding- people in IreIs md " I >Mr> LRobinsAn" declined to -divlosp tl iS names -ot any ex-Imperial officer^ who had volunteered for Mjrviro 01 **> make public % any ot^he, details of t ic •■ scheme.