Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-03-22
ENGLAND FACES EARNEST CRISIS
 OF HER HISTORY OVEk IRELAND
Situation in Ulster Is Greatly Aggravated Over the
 Regiments Who Refuse to Serve Further.
King Affairs Lord Roberts
 Ru Warships Ordered Belfast Needed to Start Open Revolt.

London, March 21 1--FNciiement over the threatened civil var ill Ulster reached it's climax today when the re- port was received that two companies of the Dorsetshre regment station ed at Belfast, had mutined. Follow ing the receipt of the report, King George summoned Field Marshal Lord Roberts for conference over the Irish situation. His Majcsty's sum- mons to the hero of the Boer war was preceded by conference with Col Seely, the War Secretary, and Arthur J. Balfour, the unofficial leader of the Unionists.
 S After seeing inc King. Lord Roberts in turn conferred with Col. Seely and the executive staff of the War Office, many of whom had been at work all night
 The report of the mutinty in the in the Pail Mall Gazette. It pays the regiment was ordered to parade and the men were then told that they were to be sent to another part of Ulster, thereupon two companies threw down their arms and serg- cant stepping forward to a command ing officer, saluted and said: "We will have no more home rule here"
 This, and the resignation of officers ] Ny thB score who are refusing to bear arms against Ulster have aroused the greatest anxiety.
 Field Marshall Roberts face was very grave when he hurried into the War office after his conference with the King. Col. Seely, the War Sec retary, has just called meeting of the army council to take necessary steps to replace the officers who had resigned.
 Grave Situation.
 The summoning of Lord Roberts, the cabinet conference which lasted nearly all night and which was. re- sumed this morning and the extra activity of the War office shoy the seriousness of the situation more clearly than words. The situation is further complicated by the admitted shortage of commissioned officers in the army. An alarming note was sounded today by Lloyd George in a message which he conveyed to mass meeting of Liberals at Hudders Field. Discussing Ulster and the attitude of the nioinists, he said:
 Liberalism will not finch one bit before the pledge of Toryism. The country is confronted with the grav- est issue in the history since the days of the Stuarts' Representative gov ernment in this land is at stake. ! am here on behalf of the Government to say we mean to confront this de- fiance of popular liberties with reso- lute and unwavering determination whenever the hazard may be. We are l not fighting about Ulster or about Home Rule. We are fighting for all that is essential to the civil liberty of this land"
 Field Marshal Sir John French, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, arrived in Dublin late today in con- nection with the resignation of off,
 ficers in the regular army, owing to their refusal to march against the Unionists.
 Officers Resign. Nearly all the officers of the Fourth l Queens Own Hussars, stationed at
 Danagh Camp are reported to have l handed in their commissions and
 their places have been filled. 1 The incident at Belfast is said to 1 reflect the attitude of thousands of
 men in the service and it cannot be
 denied that the example is being set l by the officers.
 I The Government has notlIled all I officers that they must declare their
 attitude within twelve hours. This
 action followed the report yester- day that 100 officers, most of them in ! the calvary branch of the service. has
 resigned when ordered to proceed tc I points in Ulster from the greap mili- I tary camp at Darragh.
 The declaration that is to be made
 by the officers within twelve hourf