The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-03-26
KINGS PLEA FAILS
TO MOVE TROOPS
Sir Paget Urges British Officers
to Remain Loyal.
REVOLT is NOW FEARED
More Than One Hundred Resign Posts
Although Told That Mutny Must
Cause Fall Of English
Throne.

London, March 24.-General Coughs
brother has also resigned his commits
sion He is Gen. ]. f. Cough, chief-of-
staff in the Aldershot command. Gen.
eral Cough and his brother officers.
including Colonel Bogg from Currakh,
arrived here and visited the war office.
Colonel Hogg subsequently took lunch
at the admiralty house with Winston
Churchill who when he was in the
army served in Colonel Boggs regi-
ment
London, March 24.-The dreaded
Sunday passed without the slightest
disturbance of order in Belfast or IN
Ulster. But the gravity of the crisis
is fully indicated by the fact that the
king Cancelled his intended weekend
visit to the Earl and Countess Of Derby
at Liverpool. AS result OF a meeting
of the party leaders, Andrew Bonar
Law will move the adjournment of the
house with a view to securing dis
cussion Of the whole situation.
The conference between King
George, Premier Asquith and the other
ministers with reference to the Ulster
situation continued all day.
Premier Asquith has authorized the
Times to make the following statement
in his behalf, in order TO remove three
misapprehensions in the public mind
as to the governments actions and in
tentions:
He say, "the recent movement OF
troops in Ireland was Of a purely pre-
cautionary character, and 1t Is obvious
that the policy of disposing small
bodies of troops in Ulster would be
perfectly useless from strategic view
point. The intention was simply the
protection of the arms and ammuni-
ton depots from a possible raid. No
further movements of troops Is con-
templated.
"The rumor that warrants had been
issued for the arrest of the Ulster
leaders had the slightest foundation.
/ The government never has taken and
does not contemplate any such STEP
But" continues the Times. 1T Is
understood that the minister's view is
that there has been quite an honest
misunderstanding concerning the ma
/ ture OF the duties the officers have
/ been asked to perform, and that the IN
! teation is to reinstate them and at
tribute the whole business TO blum
der"
Belfast, March 24-The detection of
the army officers is the cause OF great
jubilation in Ulster and among the Off
/ cals of the provisional government,
who are keeping in close touch with
events at Curragh and other military
depots in Ireland through secret CORE
spondence.
A letter which the provisional au-
thorties have received from an officer
at the Curragh station, stated that
more than one hundred officers had re-
signed including all the cavalry Off
GERS. Gen. Sir Arthur Paget, command
ing the troops in Ireland. had them
paraded and told them, according to
the letter, that he had IAN express
order and request from the king him
]
dered, that they might never be called
upon to fight and that If they refused
! to go there might be mutiny in the
army, which would mean revolution
In England. and in six months there
would be no king and no army"
Despite this appeal all officers re-
fused to reconsider their resignation.
! general officer of high standing In
the regular army was offered the post
ef commanderin-chief Of the force
which is to operate against the Ulster
volunteers.
When he declined the offer the war
Office informed him that his refusal
meant the severance of his connection
with the army. He persisted and the
/ authorities offered the post to another
officer, said to be General Friend. now
commanding at Belfast, who accepted
denial was issued of the reported
mutiny of the Dorsetshire regiment.