MORE SOLDIERS LANDED IN THE NORTH.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20038, 23 March 1914, Page 5

MORE SOLDIERS LANDED IN THE NORTH.

VOLUNTEERS SALUTE REGULARS

Received March 22, 5.5 p.m.

LONDON, March 22. Two torpedoers landed 150 soldiers at Carrickfergus Castle from Dublin. The Press Association states that volunteers are guarding Craigavon. They are armed with rifles, bayonets and ball cartridges. They stood at the salute as the Dorsetshire regiment passed. Many of the Dorsets returned the compliment. Five officers and one hundred of the Fifth Yorkshire Light Infantry embarked, at Kingstown for the North?' ' The guards at Londonderry, have been irebled and 3>all cartridges served. " ~" T,fi&mdveittentpf troops is regarded, in ■Untqnist <?ircles; '■ in England as fore-- 5 shadowing an attempt to disarm the vol'uriteerS. I " ■*---■ -■■ •-• ■.-■■■.-,■..- - is stated that the police planned a simultaneous raid on arms in various districts. Military are stationed in centres convenient for dealing with any resistance to the raids. On the other ; hand, the denuding of Belfast of troops and the concentration with war material ( at Holy wood, is interpreted as implying that it is easier to defend the stores there against possible volunteer raids than in crowded Belfast, where 27,000 j volunteers are enrolled.

Many inhabitants in Enniskillen, waving the Union Jack, rousingly welcomed 200 Cornwalls.

Another draft of 200 reached Newry, where troops have not been stationed for eight years. The sentries at Ebringtqn narracks, been trebled. This is the first-, since the abortive Fenian rising in tlio sixties.