SITUATION APPARENTLY GRAVE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11934, 23 March 1914, Page 5

SITUATION APPARENTLY GRAVE.

fiOVERNMENT DETERMINED TO CARRY THE BILL

REPORTED ISSUE OF ULTIMATUM.

SUBSEQUENT DENIAL BY WAR OFFICE.

Press Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright

LONDON, Sunday

A telegram from Curragh Camp says, that the. War (Mice,, in an. ultimatum, has intimated that officers not prepared tv serve against Ulster must resign, or be dismissed. One hundred oilicers, chieily of the cavalry corps, have resigned. At Dublin, the. oilicers of the Fifth Lancers have resigned as ii protest against the regiment being ordered north. It is oflicially stated that the Army Council some time ago instructed Lieu-tenant-General Paget, Military Commander in Ireland, to take the iiecessary steps to safeguard Government property, and assist, if summoned,, to keep law and order. It is pointed out that Ireland is a separate command, and that the War Oilice is not directing the movements oft the troops, although Sir Arthur Paget is keeping "Whitehall acquainted with what is happening, and the reinforcement of the (lister garrisons which is now occurring hi pursuance to orders given by him. Sir Arthur Paget lias arrived at the Curragh Camp. Negotiations are now proceeding with the oilicers who have resigned. It is reported that Brigadier-General IT. do La P. Gough, commanding the Third Cavalry Brigade at the Curragh, aiid several oilicers at Aldershot have, resigned. It is stated at Aldersliot that the South "Western 'Railway Company has been ordered to have trains ready to move ten thousand troops to Glasgow and other ports, whence, they will be transportable to Ireland.