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DEFICIENCY OF AMMUNITION. ULSTIOR -VOLUNTEERS MOBILISING. (Received Monday, at, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Sunday. Special Magistrates for Ulster arc being sworn in at Dublin Castle. One hundred and iifty Royal Engineers from Dublin, with trenching and pontoon apparatus, entrained for Belfast. An 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 ordnance storemen in Ulster us they leavo work. The removal of mounted troops from.
Curragh has been cancelled owing to the resignation of oilicers. The Earl of Galloway proposes a national subscription to compensate officers for the sacrifice of their commissions because they refuse to do the Government's dirty work. Sir Edward Carson conferred with the leaders of the volunteers, and arrangements have been completed for tho mobilisation of the force. Sir John Simon, Liberal M.P., sx)caking at Manchester, denied that the moving of trooi>s was provocative. The Gays of vague negation of Home Rule, he said, wore over.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11934, 23 March 1914, Page 5
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172FURTHER PREPARATIONS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11934, 23 March 1914, Page 5
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