ARMS AND AMMUNITION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 9 December 1913, Page 5

ARMS AND AMMUNITION.

BY CABLE—PEESB ASSOCII.WON—COPYRI3HT. LONDON, Dec. 8. Ihe Nationalists of Dublin are displeased with the Privy Council's proclamation prohibiting the importation or arms and ammunition into Ireland tftev contending that it discloses an admission of the seriousness of the position m Ulster Many, at the same lv v■ • • are,. that Jt is directed against the Nationalist volunteer movement rather than against Unionist preparations m Ulster. They claim- that many thousand Nationalist volunteers are enrolled, and they resent anything intended to hinder them' from arming It is even intended to start a small arms xaetory. The Daily Telegraph's. correspondent states that it is only in Belfast that tlie constabulary secret service men are specially detailed to watch gunrunning. The suggestion that the proclamation is directed against the volunteer movement in Dublin is untenable. A starving city cannot afford the | luxury ot rifles. Ireland's contribution '«> the Parliamentary fund, including , £4000 from the Nationalist members of the House of Commons, he adds, is £17 000. or £3000 less than Dromore, in County -Down, guaranteed to the Lmonist indemnity fund. If the entire Nationalist Parliamentary fund were applied to arming it would be of very little utility. Several custom officers in Scotland have been instructed to go to Ireland with their bicycles, and to keen a sharp look-out along the coasts for rifles and ammunition. A fireman was injured in an explosion of cartridges at a stockbroker's garage, in Belfast. The fusilade lasted for 20 minutes. ,