"Or Else!"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 35, 2 June 1914, Page 5

"Or Else!"

HOME RULE FOFS IRELAND. NATIONALIST VOLUNTEERS. 'Bt Et/eotrtc Ttcij:qraph—Copyright) [United pRKm Association.J London, June 1. The procession of Nationalist volunteers was a mile long. It included a band of trained nurses in 'dec! Cross uniform. At Celtic' Park a series of evolutions was performed with groat alertness and precision. Several speeches were delivered. According to the Dublin Sunday Independent, the Nationalist volunteers of Lister total -11,000, Leiuster 42,000, Minister 27.000. and Gonuaught 18,500. Enrolment is progressing at the rate of live thousand weekly. Two companies have been formed at Aehillisland, where the whole drill commands are carried out in Gaelic. Mr O'Connor states that the incidents at The Curragh gave the first impulse to the present Nationalist volunteer movement. THE NATIONALIST ORGANISER. Mr Lundon, 3,1.1'., in a speech at Limerick City, said that Mr Redmond had sent him to organise the Nationalist volunteers. He intended to ask them to help' and keep Home Rule on the Statute Book. If they couldn't have peace without excluding Ulster for an indefinite period they would be prepared to act if such a peace wore to be enforced upon them. When the Tories returned to office they possibly would attempt to give Ulster better terms, but the Nationalists could point to their volunteers and tell the Tories: "You leave the Bill on the Statute Look or els^—well, they all knew what the 'else' meant. Whether they had to face Sir Edward Carson or England armed they would be ready." JOYFUL DEMONSTRATIONS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received S a.m. London, June 1. Mr T. P. O'Connor, speaking at the annual convention of the United Irish League of Great Britain at Caxfcon Hall, stated that the Irish papers were filled with accounts of demonstrations—bonfires on every hill, processions; meetings, and bands playing—in every town in Ireland because Home Rule had been won.