The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-07-06
DELAY ON HOME RULE FOR
IRELAND INCREASES MENACE
Continued From First Page.

tive. In some districts the volunteers
are split into factions under opposing
leaders, who carry on newspaper
| warfare.
| The Ulster leaders say that the
| Nationalist volunteers must fail
through the impossibility of getting
| arms. They claim to have many let
ters from America showing that the
| Irish there are tired of contributing
to Home Rule, and now that they
consider an irish parliament assured,
they propose to let those in Ireland
| settle internal questions without help.
| Even il American sympathiZers should
refill the war chest the present gov
| eminent measures to suppress gun
running in all ports would checkmate
| them.
I'VE have two years start in the
matter OF arming and we mean to
keep it," an official of the Ulster
Unionist Council said to The Associat-
ed Press.
In many Ulster villages the Nation
alist bands are being drilled by retir-
ed army sergeants near the halls and
parade grounds Of the Ulster battal-
ions and the townspeople are able to
watch the preparations of both forces.
There were $500 Nationalist volun-
tcers in Belfast about the middle of
June and many more in Londonderry
city, where Catholics and Protestants
are much more evenly balanced in
numbers.
The volunteers, saturated with the
military spirit are becoming impa-
tent. Some battalions have even sent
populations of officers to headquarters
to ask when the campaign would be-
gin, and the work of keeping the bold
spirits quiet is increasingly difficult.
The headquarters staff has worked
out a plan of campaign for hostilities.
1t is not likely that they will attempt
To use this citizen force against train
ed regulars with heavy guns, for as
one officer remarked, the most they
could expect would be to put up one
good fight and be cut to pieces The
present plans are to keep the Ulster
Nationalists in check when the pro-
visional government is set up.
Most of the Belfast volunteers are
being formed into four regiments,
known as the Belfast Division which
will act as police force. \ flying
column composed OF $500 picked and
paid volunteers, n majority OF whom
are old soldiers. has been organized as
first line striking force with motor
transport capable of conveying 1t to
any part of Ulster in less than four
hours This force is armed through
out with new Mausers and possesses
ten Maxims of the latest pattern.
Certain county regiments, especially
those of Antrim and Armagh, would
go on active service with this column,
while other county regiments includ-
ing Londonderry must remain at home
to suppress the Nationalists.
If the provisional government were
established the flying column would
be sent to Londonderry where the
Nationalists are strongest, while the
East and West Belfast regiments
would form double cordons around the
two Nationalist districts of this city,
with Maxims covering the principal
street.
Information that the Nationalist
are bringing i'm carboys of vitrol
which women would pour on the
troops from windows as they poured
boiling water during the rioting some
years ago has reached Carson's head
quarters. IF there is single act of
that kind" said stan officer, the
building where 1t is done will be en-
tered, wrecked. and every officer kill
ed"