HOME RULE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 13976, 8 May 1913, Page 5

HOME RULE.

ULSTER’S RESISTANCE.

Pm* Association.—Telegraph,—Copyright Received Mav 8, 10.20 a.m. 'LONDON, May 7. The newspapers announce that Sir E. Carson is going to Belfast. Ho relinquishes his legal work for thro,- months to organise resistance to Homo Rule.

A recent cable states that the "grim earnestness" with which the men of Ulster are preparing for all Home Rule emergencies is still in evidence. Two hundred thousand men, half of whom are Orangemen and the rest members of the Unionist Club, arer being drived nightly in the Belfast district. All are over .17 years of age. and soroo are over - 70.' /■

Although these military exercises are taking place at night-time, they tare being conducted without the least attempt at anything in the. way of secrecy. , Seventy per cent, of the volunteers are armed with rifles, and os-Army men are engaged in drilling the' forces. Route marching and signalling are practised regularly. The National Anthem and Rule Britannia arc sung at the clote of each evening’s drill.