ORANGEMEN'S DAY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13428, 10 July 1914, Page 6

ORANGEMEN'S DAY.

DBESS REH^VRSAL IN. BELFAST. ,' BELFAST, July 6. \ Hundreds of A-oluinteers, cairyiiur their rifles aslant, -paraded the streets yesterday, and Avere. exercised \\\ '.-. bayonet drill iii' proximity to the Nationalist quarter. '■ « As. they •■marched through tha city the 12th Ulster Volunteers, their 'rifles ; load-" ed WitJv:ball cart/ridge,., obeyed the order of "Eyes front," ■ mnd .' .-'. unheeded the taunts* of* the Nationalist '.'policemen as they 'passed, along..... / The Volunteers'; tivrnbut. was regarded as a dress 1 relicarsal, for the- 12th of July , ■ and if tlbeir, good '•'lbeThavipr m yesterday' s| parade 4s maintained Oht'hat occasio\\, Grange Day is '•hot- likely to be marked b V ' blotidshed. . \ '" Tho feeling outside J.the-'.' city is that full advantage AVill betaken of 'the b>rmissioh to curry arms. if tho police attempt to disoti'm any. -''single', individual there is a certainty of -.their- being over- , Avhelmetl. AlKigii police official, .when questionced . pb the matter, said, "\Vhat j can the police ;do t : They; cannot arsbsA 30;CC0 armed men."' V, ;, ' It i» reported that the Oiangemen are in 'possession of the details of a Nationalist plot for a raid on ; their rifle storehouses Avijii le these places are urn - guarded during the Boyne ceilebrations. Armed fentries will therefore: be posted at thfe storehouses, with instructions to shoot any unauthorised person who nt--tempts to tamper Avith tlie stores.