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Show Confident an Enemy Will Appear. The Irish people are managing to; gel some old-fashioned fun out of th menacing situation in Ulster. Th London Chronicle (which is for lioma rule) says that at the moment when both bands of volunteers were swarming swarm-ing through an Ulster town a volunteer volun-teer of some kind, in full panoply of war, was met in the street by a friend. "So you are going to ftghl?" saict the friend. "Yes." "Who are you going to figbt, the Nationalists?" Na-tionalists?" "No, we are not going to fight the-Nationalists." the-Nationalists." "Are you going to fight the police V "No, I do not think we are going t-fight t-fight the police." "Are you going to fight the Knglieh soldiers?" "No, I don't think we shall fight the English soldiers." "Then who are you going to fight I"" "The Lord will provide." The Pumps. Lord Mersey, h'-ad of tin KrnprfsH j of Ireland-Storstad investigation board, said to a New York reporter the other day. i "Much is sf;!l l ft. to be desired, but j ships are safer than Ihey used to b." With a smile the veteran jurist i added: j "We no longer hear of skippers of- ' feting such excuses for slow passaies as the one offered by the skipper of j the collier, who said: " Well, gentlemen, no wonder we're late. We pumped the whole Atlantic three times through that ship coming cross.' " |