INSUBORDINATE MILITARY OFFICERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 72, 26 March 1914, Page 5

INSUBORDINATE MILITARY OFFICERS.

BATHER FIGHT FOR ULSTER,

STORMY SCENES AT THE WAR OFFICE.

[Pucm Amooiatiow.] (Received March 20, &25 p.m.) LONDON, March 25. rn»«t sol°3^ io^ cheered General aSK a^ General MacEwaa -on tfe i 1? 081**^,."™" gathered «b **X" .«■* **» officers would ail be ««BaAatea.'-"They would not be called on. to coerce Ulster. If sent on other auty ne had a guarantee that they would not bo asked to bear arms against Ulster. (Great cheeriijg.) General Gough informed the Daily Telegraph.: "I ham a -signed guarantee that under 'no -circumstances will .we be used to force Home •Kule upon Ulster. ' We are willing to undertake ordinary duty, such as protection of life and property and preservation of order, but if it comes TnJS 7 + *f ar TO.'*jH rather, .fight f or Ulster than against -her." Amsfcher account -states that when General Gough, General MacEwan, and General Parker reached the War Uftoe there were stormy, sceaaer.. ■ Sir John French criticised the* action fhf^S mg "*£» ■«***?* P^shment. S? i^w^* 1? 11, ,?* Lo^ Roberta -"stored better feting, aafi. .finally the officers received the document. Many paragraphs, .set out an legal phraseology set out the conditions TJlste W y WOUW *****

General Gough replied: -"We are JJiain soldiers, and do not understand P 24? m' Sunderstand that wear© nQt to be S^i* bear arms against Ulster, Slip enl orce the Pr-esent Home RtUb office^ £a^ We. ietarn »? tell the ■InCi?lf' fnr? ler iSir John copies of th- document were made and deposited with the solic£

The Union Defence League ha« *TtJ? S 1" W-^..?* was commenced »y Mr Hei-bert Gibds offering £1000 «sa protest Mr C3a.<urcliill'-B speeches.