The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-21
NEW REGIMENTS MAY BE ORDERED
 INTO IRELAND. Scores of Officers Resign Their Commissions In
 Historic Forces LORD ROBERTS
 CONFERS WITH. KING Armed Soldiers Rushed Into Northern Counties By
 Land and Sea

London, March 21-A mutiny of two companies of the Dorset shire regiment mentioned in Belfast is reported by the Pail Mall Gazette.
 According to the Pall Mall Gazette's message, when the men of the first battalion of the Dorsetshire regiment were pa raded in Belfast today and n0- tified that they were being transferred elsewhere, they threw down their arms.
 A sergeant stepped forward, saluted the officers and said: IsWe will have no home rule here.o
 This is thought in some quar- ters to be an exaggerated vef- sion of the reports Of unrest among the regular troops in Ulster.
 Dublin, March 21-The in- mediate dispatch of regular cavalry from the Curragh camp to Ulster had to be cancelled to- day owing to resignations of officers of the 16th Lancers and 4tfl Hussars.
 Dublin, March 21-The first victim of the exiSting state of excitement in Ireland was a soldier at the Curragh camp tWho was late for roll call. He attempted to scale wall of the barracks and was shot by sem Itry. It is thought the wound will prove fatal.
 Associated Press Cable Despatch to 1 the Farmer.1
 Belfast Ire., March 21-UlSter this morning presented a maTt1ai aspect. II All the towns were occupied by sol diers of the regular army and other tdetaohments were marching along the country roads with long trains of bag gage and ammunition carts on their way to strengthen the various gaTri- tsons In the meanwhile, at all the Unionist centers there was great anf- Imation among the "U1ster volunteers"
 Belfast Lough also displayed con siderable activity. Two torpedo boat destroyers, the Pathfinder and the Att ltentive, arrived there this morning from Kingston and landed five off, Icers and 150 men, of the Yorkshire regiment, at Carrfckfergus Castle.
 Within 24@ hours, over 5000 regular troops including four battalions of in- lfantry with machine guns and two batteries of field artillery all equip ped for active service have arrived in the various towns of Ulster. These troops form the advance guard of a large armed force which the military authorities are sending to the north tern province of Ireland to attempt to prevent the assumption of local gov ernment by anti-home rulers.
 TROOPS RUSHED NORTH Still more troops were on their way today to the north from the great military camp at Curragh and from other army stations. The first ar IrfvaIs in Ulster were the companies of half battalion of the Yorkshire Light Infantry which were conveyed from their barracks in Dublin to Bel fast Lough on board the torpedo boat destroyer Pathfinder during the night.
 They disembarked early today and marched to Carrickfergus Castle, a Idisused military station commanding lthe L,ough and which was the landing place of William III. Field guns were mounted on the old Notifications this afternoon.
 It was generally expected here that a. cavalry brigade would be concen- trated in Belfast within, a day or two The 18th Queens Lancasters and the 4th Queens Own Hussars stationed at the Curragh were yesterday equip ped with carbfnes and were ready to move northward this afternoon.
 These sudden preparations by the war office so far have not created any public demonstration in Belfast The leaders of the so-cal1ed Unionist Pro-
 visional government, however, admit
 their anxiety lest their over-entIlII-
 siastie followers precipitate riots dur
 ing the two days of idleness at fhe
 weekend and thereby give their op- Lponents the sought for opportunity fol