DEFICIENCY OF AMMUNITION
LONDON, Mar. 22.
Special magistrates for Ulster are being sworn in at Dublin Castle. One hundred and fifty Royal Engineers from Dublin, with trenching and pontoon apparatus, have entrained for Belfast.
Examination of the Curragh magazine revealing a deficiency of ammunition to a large amount, including hundreds of thousands of rounds for small arms, an order has been issued to search the ordl--nance storemen in Ulster as they leave work. ""
The removal of mounted troops to Curragh has been cancelled owing to the resignation of officers.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20039, 24 March 1914, Page 5
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