HOME RULE.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12806, 2 June 1914, Page 5

HOME RULE.

A MILE OF NATIONAL VOLUNTEERS. FORCE TOTALS 128,500. ENROLMENTS 5000 WEEKLY. By Electric Telegraph —Press Association —Copyright. Received 10.45 p.m. LONDON, June 1. A procession a mile long, including a band of trained nurses in Red Cross uniform accompanied the National Volunteers from Londonderry to Celtic Park where a series of evolutions were performed with great alertness and precision. Several speeches were delivered. According to the Dublin Sunday Times the Independent National Volunteers in Ulster total 41,000, in Leinster 42,000, in Munster 27,000 and in Connaught 18,500. Enrolment is progressing at the rate of 5000^ weekly. Two companies have been formed at' Achillisland where the whole of the drill commands are carried out an Gaelic. Mr T. P. O'Connor states that the incidents at the Curragh gave the iirst impulse to the present National Volunteer movement.

READY TO FACE ENGLAND ARMED. Received 11.35 p.m. LONDON, June 1. Mr Lundon, M.P., in a speech at Limerick City, said Mr Redmond liad sent him to organise National Volunteers and he intended to ask them to help to keep Home Rule on the Statute Book. If they couldn't have peace without excluding Ulster for an indefinite period they could be prepared to act if such peace were to be enforced upon them. When the Tories were returned to office possibly they would attempt to give Ulster better terms but the Nationalists could point to the volunteers and tell the Tories "You leave the Bill on the Statute Book, or else we will.They all knew what the "else" meant. Whether they had to face Sir E. Carson or England armed they would be ready.