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Grey River Argus, 2 June 1914, Page 5

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>+• NATIONAL VOLUNTEERS. AN IMPOSING PARADE. - ENROLMENT RAPIDLY PROCEED • ING. By Electric Teiegraph — CopyngrhtJ tPer United Press Association } "LONDON, June 1. A procession a mile loaig, includinga band of trained purses m Red Cross uniforms', aocomj*amed the National volunteers from Londonderry to Celtic Park, where a*senes of evolutions performed with great alertness and precision. Several speeches were delivered. According to tne Dublin Independ ent the National volunteers in Ulster total 41,000, Leinster 42,000, Muhstcr 27.000, Connaught 18,500, and enrolment is progressing at the rate of 5,000 weekly. Two companies were formed at Ac Miles Land where the whole drill com mands were carrid out in Gaelic, and Mr O'Connor states that the incidents at Curragh ffave the first lmpusle to the present Nat ; oual volunteers movement. THEIR AIM AND. OBJECT. (Received: June 1, 11. 35 D-m.) LONDON. June i. 1 Mr. T/ Lundon. M.P., in. a speech at Limerick Citvr said that Mr. Redmond had sent h'on *o organise the National volunteers. ' I He intended to ask them to heilp to keep Mome Rule on +ne Statute Booki If they couldn't have peace without 1 excluding Ulster firxf am. indefinite 1 period they could prepare to act if I such peace were to be enforced upefa them. When the- Tories returned 'to office possibly they would attempt to give Ulster, better terms, but the Nation- 1 alists could point to fhe volunteers, and tell the Tories: "You leave the Bill on the Statute Book or else we will. They all knew what the else meant. Whoth^r they h?d to fare Carson or fengland armed they would be rca'd)"-."