Quietly Arming.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 71, 24 November 1913, Page 5

Quietly Arming.

HOME RULE FOR IRELAND. RIFLES FROM BIRMINGHAM. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright} Times—Sydney Sun Special Cables. (Received 8 a.m.) London, November 23 Although a number of secret service men have been added to the Beliast detective force,rifles and ammunition continue to reach Lister from Birmingham. Large numbers of,the latest pattern rifles were bought and shipped openly. The stocks and barrels were forwarded separately. NO COMPROMISE. [United Pbess Association.! Loudon, -November 22. The Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Gaelic League are forming a rifle corps to co-operate with the cit/.en army which is recruiting in Minister, Leinster and Connaught. Mr W. Moore, M.P. for North Armagh, speaking at Ballymoney, said that only the exclusion of the whole of-Ulster for all time from Home Rule would be acceptable.

Mr Bonar Law, the Unionist leader, speaking at a demonstration of Unionists at Birmingham, alluded to Mr Redmond's protest against dragging the Crown into the Home Rule controversy. He recalled that 12 years ago Mr Redmond assailed the Dublin Corporation for debasing itself at the feet of Queen Victoria. Members of the House of Commons remembered that when a British army was defeated in South Africa and soldiers were lying dead on the battlefield, the Nationalists raised an exulting shout of triumph. A man with this record was now urging the Government to use the troops to shoot down loyalists in a country where the National Anthem was derided. If the Nationalists thought that soldiers were going on such an errand they were mistaken. Sir Edward Carson, who followed Mr Bonar Law, declared that he would go straight on and never would take the slightest notice of a suggestion of a compromise.