The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-21
pARl liAMENTA ARGUMENT TO SOON GIVE WAY TO BAYoNET
 AND BULLET PROGRAM.
TROOPS RESTING 0N ARMS
While Ulster Volunteers, 10000 Strong Are Ready to Mobilize at an and Critical.

London, March 20.-"War in Us ter" is the startling headline sensa tioaal London newspapers are dis playing in the blackest type.
 The government today began to dis pose of its regular troops in Ireland so they may be in position to deal with any situation that arises. The army council some time ago consid cred the possibilities of home rule strife and instructed Lieut.. Gen. Sir Arthur Henry Fitzroy Paget, who com mands the Irish garrisons, to take necessary precautions to maintain or. der and safeguard property A gen. eral redistribution of forces in Ire land therefore was begun today.
 Two regiments were sent from the south to reinforce the Ulster garri- sons, while the troops in Ulster were moved to new stations in conformity with the custom that in the event of trouble soldiers will not have to en- counter people with whom they had formed friendships. Some Irish re- cruts were sent from the Armagh re- cruiting station to England.
 The possibilities Of collision be- tween British soldiers and Ulster vol litical feeling are recognized. but leaders on both sides are trying to exert a pacific influence. John Red mond, nationalist leader in parliament. today telegraphed nationalists in Bel fast an urgent appeal to abandon a parade arranged for Sunday in Lon donderry which it was thought likely would result in rioting. Sir Edward Carson. the Ulster leader, and mem bers of the Uuslter council invoked calmness on the part of the yolun. teers
 Four cabinet ministers spoke of the Ulster situation at different meetings tonight. John Burns, president of the local government board, in an address said:
 Home rule is a question mainly for Ireland itself Threefourths of the people there have demanded it persist ently for years and we have no right to listen to the demand for more con- sessions or yield to clamor. We have no more desire to yield to lawless law yers than to lawless laborers.' Thom- as McKinnon Wood, secretary of state for Scotland, said: We will carry home rule, by agreement if we pos sibly can, but without it if we must. "
 Augustine Birrell, chief secretary for Ireland, in his speech declared the governments proposals gave Us ter freedom from coercion for six years and that the scheme of Andrew Bonar Law, leader of the opposition in parliament, meant immediate CO., ercion if a referendum went against Ulster
 Sir John Allsebrook Simon attorney general, said the government proposed to go steadily on, adding:
 Whatever happens we will see that law and order are unflinchingly ob- served in Ulster"
 Tn view of the partisan claims re garding the number of men. the or ganiaztion and equipment of the Us ter volunteers, statements by Col Da court, military correspondent of the London Times, and H. w. Nevinson, a prominent liberal writer of the Ma tion. who have been touring Ulster are important.
 al fIn m enrolled are in the flower of theiI age and of excellent physique. De centralization has been the system ot the organization. Each county forms a separate unit. There are 65 bat taliols of which IS are in Belfast The volunteers have 400 motor cars 200 motor cycles and a complete sys tenn of communication. Eighty thou sand rifles, according to Col. Dacourt have been distributed to selected mer sb that wholesale seizures of the weapons would be impossible.
 Mir. Neyinson estiamtes that be tween 60,000 and S0000 men would respond to a call for mobilization o volunteers He thinks the rifles O the volunteers obsolete.
 In scattered groups" continued MT Neyinson, they would try to harras the regular army sent to occupy th' country The movement therefore IS not bluff proper. Neither is formidable from a military point Q