THE ULSTER PROBLEM.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 99, 2 June 1914, Page 7

THE ULSTER PROBLEM.

NATIONALIST VOLUNTEERS.

' 'READY FOR ANYTHING-.''

By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright. LONDON, June 1.

Mr T. Lundon, M.P., in a speech at Limerick - City, said Mr Redmond had sent him to organise the National Volunteers. 1 ; He intended to ask them to help to keep the Home Rule Bill on the Statute Book. If they could not have peace without, excluding Ulster for an indefinite period, they eould prepare to act if such a peace were to be forced upon them. When the Tories returned to office they would possibly attempt to give Ulster better teriiis, but the Nationalists could point to the Volunteers and tell the Tories: "You leave the Bill on the Statute Book, or else——! " They air knew what the else meant. Whether they had to face Sir Edward Carson or England armed, they would be ready.

A MONSTER PROCESSION.

RAPID ENROLMENT. A processiona mile long, including a band of trained nurses wearing the Red Cross uniform, accompanied the National Volunteers of Londonderry to Celtic Park, where a series of evolutions were* performed with great alertnesa and. precision. Several speeches were delivered.

According to the Dublin "Sunday Independent," the 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 on Achil Island, where Gaelic is the only language-used. Mr T. P. O'Connor states that the incidents at the Curragh gave the first impulse to the present National Volunteer movement.

BANDS AND BONFIRES.

rREJOiciNGS IN IRELAND.

(Received June 2, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 1.

" Mr T. P. O'Connor, speaking at the annual convention of the United Irish League of Great Britain at the Croxton Hall, stated that 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. IRISH LABOUR PARTY.

FORESHADOWED BY LARKIN. (Received June 2, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, June 1. At the Irish Trade Union Congress meeting, held in Dublin, Mr James Larkin was elected president. He stated that now the Home Rule question had been settled, an Irish Labour Party would be established next week.