Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-03
Especial Correspondence of the starr

Especial Correspondence of the Star.D
BELFAST, June 1.-THE shrieking
newspoys are rushing about with
their late special editions" again.
The House of Lords opened their ses-
sion on Monday, and they will re-
main well in the limelight for some
weeks to come. The Home Rule bill
has passed up to them from the
House of Commons. and they VIII
have to deal with 1t and the prom
.sed Amending bill in the near III,
ture. And their temper at the start
is anything but promising. \ cor
respondent on the scene in London
writes: THE lords have girded up
their loins for the last desperate
struggle against Home Rule. There
was no mistaking the bellicose mood
of Lord Lansdowne in the brief en-
counter between himself and Lord
Crewe yesterday afternoon The
Tory chief in the aristocratic house
was touchy and warlike with the
Liberal chief in the assembly-Lof
Crewe-and already the storm clouds
are plainly to be seen in the polltlcai
sky And thus it comes to pass that
the newsboys have fallen on glorious
~ busy days again, for no one knows
may now evolve as day follows day.
Enjoy Half Holiday.
Saturday is a half-holiday for the
majority of Belfast's workers, and
they manage to enjoy it hugely in
the fine weather that has recently
been prevailing. But returning from
their happy sun blessed outings they
often find the evening papers re-
calling them from the pleasant spirit
of rollicking picnics and seaside Jol-
lily to the stern business of the
war of politics. Thus merrymakers
back in town last Saturday from the
weekend haunts of happiness found
themselves face 10 face with the
following newsbill:
RUMORED GUN RUNNING
AT RED BAY.
POLICE AND CUSTOMS ON THE
ALERT.
DESTROYER HOLDS UP"
COASTER.
And the paper itself said 1T was
rumored in Lorne this morning that
during last night cargo of guns in
tended for the Irish National Volun-
teers was landed at Red Bay, an in
let on the Antrim coast, about TWEEN
ty-five miles from Larne. For some
days past there have been vague
rumors that the Nationalists of the
Antrim coast meant to try and rival
the gun-running exploit of the Ulster
Volunteers at Larne, but by Unionists
this was reported as mere bravado as,
since the Larne episode, the Antrim
coast has been patroled day and
night by four of the destroyer flotilla
having it's headquarters in Belfast
Lough. Information was received at
Larne early this morning of move
ments of a suspicious nature along
the coast in the vicinity of Red Bay
and the police and customs officials
were speedily on the alert. About
o'clock in the morning the police and
customs officers received the call and
proceeded in strong force to Red
Bay pier. They made a formidable
as they had picked up other
en- route. but in the
duty had picked up the suspected
steamer by her searchlights and
stopped her. She was thoroughly
but no contraband OF war
was found upon her The chief of
police and the chief officer of customs
arrived by motor in Red Bay before
dawn and the sleepy village was
thrown into quite a ferment of excite
ment, and so was the adjacent little
town of Cushendall. by the descent
upon il of such a big force of police
and customs men" Such is a sample
of the alarms to which Ulster folks
are exposed while the present crisis
exists.
But though mistakes of this kind
are made there is no doubt that num-
erous efforts are being made to bring
rifles and ammunition into the coun-
try. At Kingstown, the Dublin port
of entry, two pretty large lots of am
munition were detected while an at
tempt was being made to land them
within the past couple of days Across
the channel, at Liverpool. on Satur-
day. while some workmen were pre-
pairing to unload a van, a case con-
tanning sugar fell and burst open.
To the surprise of all two rifles were
found carefully packed in the sugar