Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-26
GUN-RUNNING IN ULSTER
SANCTIONED BY OFFICIALS
ofense for Which the Irish Home Rulers Formerly Were
Thrown in Jail Is condoned When Law Is Broken by
Orangemen.

at Hollywood barracks, near Belfast,
in County Down. was also, it is
stated, to be notified TO be in readi-
ness, while throughout the night
three warships in Bangor bay were in
constant communication with the
coast guards on the shore. No such
ship came. and the authorities had
all their trouble for nothing.
General Macready is, as l write,
still pursuing his inquiries as to the
-esources of Ulster military quarters.
de closed UP last week with a pro-
lnged visit to Enniskillen. He began
this with a similarly extended IN
spection of Armagh City.
Aud while we are on the subject of
military preparations, it is well TO
remember ore curious fact that has
emerged from the discussions on the
exciting Ulster plot period-the
Victoria barracks. Belfast, would, IN
case of trouble, probably prove I'M
tenable. 1t is situated at the northern
side of the city, and when the site
was first chosen was just at the edge
of a comparat lively small town. NOW
the city has grown out beyond it on
all sides, and around it are houses
and spaces that might possibly be
used by assailants with murderous
effect. Therefore, the city's only bar
racks would have to be abandoned IN
case of "civil war" During the mill
tory movements that gave rise to the
pilot" charges one of the hrst
changes effected was the emptying OF
Victoria barracks of its regiment OF
troops. They We're transferred to
Hollywood barracks. some six miles
away, at the County Down side OF
Belfast Tough, and remained there
for some weeks. Since then they
have proceeded to Bally-Kinlar Camp,
in County Down, for a training
period, and one result of this is that
while volunteers are parading the
thoroughfares on every side, there Is
practically not a soldier to be seen
in the Belfast streets just now. AS
consequence, perhaps, OF the dis
covery regarding the Victoria par
racks unsuitability it is now common
property that arrangements nave
been made by the military authorities
to acquire grounds at Hannahstown,
in case of trouble, to form a camp
ing ground for troops. Hannahstown
is some two miles up the billy ground
in the Falls road, or westerly dlrec-
ton, and absolutely dominates the
city.
Arrival of Sir Paget
A day or two ago another big mill
itary parsonage arrived in the
North-General Sir Arthur Paget,
Irish commander in-chief, whose adj
dress TO the Curragh officers previous
to the emeute affair was recently the
subject of so much comment. He is
staying at Newcastle, a seaside viii
lage in the south of County Down,
and Is, ostensibly, only holidaying.
But the Unionist journalists will have
it that he is much more seriously en-
gaged--that he is within very short
distance of Ballykinler military camp
and is most of the time visited and
consulted by military officers and
also naval officers from the destroyer
flotilla, three of which vessels are in
the immediate neighborhood. And one
evening paper tells us, 1.-THE local
officers of the Ulster Volunteers are
keeping a close watch upon General
Paget's official movements" Why
this watching" should occur, only
the scribe could tell
While the Ulster Volunteers are
playing their political game in the
Unionist interest, it is well worth
serious note that the National Volun-
teers, only comparatively recently
started, are increasing in numbers al
most like wildfre. Two or three
months ago the movement seemed a
hopelessly negligible one-a sort Of
dream corps of words-rather-than
ton faddists. 1t began in the South;
now 1t has spread into all the pro-