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Show DANGER GROWS M M IN 0LQJEU1 Nationalists and Ulster ites Continue to Arm for Struggle Over Home Rule Question. ORANGE LEADERS NOW FAVOR DELAY Civil War, Now That Home Rulers Are Armed, More Dreaded Than When First Threats Made. T.ondo.V. July 6. with every week of suspense In the fietilc-ment of tho fuluxf fiovtrniiirnt of Ireland the menace of the n.ililii ry pr-pa rations by th IT 1st or and the home rile volunteers 'ine rear.es. The pr.Sfnt tendency amniig the volunteers of th south 1h to accept leadership by the Nationalist party whleh John Redmond Red-mond offered them. Thus led, there would be a clrar division of home rulers and ml -home rule mm Into hostile armed camps. The very danR-rs of a bitter civil w.-ir whlrh such a prospect present pre-sent a furnishes the bet safeguard for peace. Corref-pond -.'iits of the Associated Press at Dublin and Iielfast have written of the si! ua tlon from the Nationalist and Ulster points of view respectively. The most Interest! ntf development is the plan, hitherto unpublished, uf the Orangemen undT Sir )M wii rd Carson for taklnv charge of affairs by force If a provisional government Is set up, and the fact that the commerrtal men of Helfaat have used their Inllvienre In UlMer councils to postpone post-pone ra.M'al action until a horr.e rule parliament par-liament I. as l--en established In Dublin. T!ih Tea.t jueM:on which confronts the Nationalist volunteers la how far their Amerb-iin Fympa t!:zcrs are likely to come forward with fund for their arms anO eu.uii.ment. NATIONALIST ARMY RAPIDLY GROWING DI'RLIN, July i. Kstlmates of the number of the Irish Nationalist volunteers volun-teers va ry between J-i0')0, which Is the Dublin (.'astle figure compiled by the police, po-lice, and a quarter of a million, which is the estimate piven in platform speeches. Careful inquiry shows that there are 50.000 In Lelnster. which takes the lead; about 45,000 in Ulster (increasing rapidly), rap-idly), 35.000 in Munster and 25,000 in Con naught. The difficulty c" exact estimate arisee from the fact that the movement is not organized from the center. Forces have sprung up spontaneously in every parish, and so far are only loosely connected with the provisional central body. There has been a complete wiping out of all class distinctions, and the rank and file include every grade farmers. laborers, shop assistants, clerks, doctors, lawyer and country gentlemen. There is a very strong leaven of time-expired soldiers-old soldiers-old Connaught Rangers, Dublin Fusiliers and Munster Fusiliers, and their experience expe-rience Is proving useful In the drill. Nationalist Commanders. The chief military commanders are Colonel Maurice Moore, who commanded the Connaught Rangers in the Boer war. and Captain White, a son of the General White who defended Ladysmith. Recent accessions are Sir Henry G rat tan Bel-lew, Bel-lew, a grandson of the great Henry Grattan, who had experience In the Fifth Dragoon guards, and Captain BelHngham, brother of the Marchioness of Bute, who Is at present aide-de-camp to the lord lieutenant. Military experience, howeve" slight, ia at a premium, and a medical student, with a little volunteer training, is commanding as sergStnt of a squad which Includes among the privates a university professor of law. The army has extremely little equipment equip-ment and almost no money. But the material is excellent and the enthusiasm unbounded. Mr. Redmond's open association asso-ciation with the movement will remove the difficulty of getting money. The men In charge of the movement are for the most part unknown and there has ben much reluctance to provide funds till the public knew who would spend the money and fur what. Central Body. The central body consists of twenty-five twenty-five men; of them fifteen are said to be home rulers In sympathy with Mr. Redmond, Red-mond, but the more active, influential and effective spirits are members of the Sinn Fein rnrty. They have few supporters sup-porters In the country and the great bulk of the volunteers are supporters of Redmond. Mr. Redmond offered his cooperation co-operation to the central body if lie was allowed to nominate an equal number of men on It, pending the election of the volunteer branches of a central executive. ex-ecutive. Failing acceptance he will recommend rec-ommend ench county to govern Itself. This offer was rejected on a hastllv summoned meeting of the executives who proposed that each county should elect a representative to sit with them. This has produced strong protest from Professor Pro-fessor Kerr, who says the meeting was not properly convened and asks for a full meeting when the members would accept Mr. Redmond's offer. Mr. Redmond Red-mond cannot allow a movement mainly composed of his supporters to be commanded com-manded by a self-qualified body, of which (Continued on Page Thre.) DIGER BROWS WITH M DAY Hi WEEK (Continud from Paga One.) the most active members are opponent? of his Once the volunteer members car. hv-d their conentto;i to check an executive ex-ecutive the ii alter will f et t l:s-I( Meantime t":ere may b friction whk h w lil be oM iate,i to a great extent by ma k: rie each county go ern Its own volunteers. vol-unteers. ORANGEMEN CLAIM GREATEST NUMBER BELFAST. June 5. The leaders of the covenanters in Ulster profe.-s to consider the Nationalist volunteer movement as som-thin? n- t tn be taken peri-n:s!y. Thse Nationalist binds in the Ulster counties dr:!l s; asinodlcally and are not connected with any central organization. Ail t:ie local leaders act entirely on their own initiative. Ir. some districts the volunteers volun-teers are spilt Into faotons under op-r-islrsr leaders who carry on a ntwajjaper warfare. The Ulster leaders pay that the Nn-tonallst Nn-tonallst volunteers must fail through the Impossibility of getting arms. They claim to have many letters from America showing- that the Inch there are tired of contributing to home rule, and now that they consider an Irish parl.ament assured, as-sured, thev propose to let thoe In Ireland settle their internal question without help. Kvn If American sympathizers should rehll the war chest the. present government measures to suppress gun running in all ports would checkmate them. "We have two years' etart in the matter of arminc and we mean to keep it." an official of the Lister Unionist council said to the Associated Press. In many Ulster villages the Nationalist Nation-alist bands are belnq- drilled by retired army sergeants near the halls and parade" pa-rade" grounds of the Ulster battalions and the townspeople are able to watch the preparations of both forces. There were L'rViO Nationalist volunteers in Belfast about the middle of June and many more In I Londonderry city where Catholics and Protestants are much more evenly balanced in numbers. Two Factions. In the covenanter movement there are two distinct factions at present. One is a militant section which advocates Immediate provocative action, with the belief that bloodshed wroucht. would shock the English nonconformists and force Asqulth to prant Ulster's demand for permanent exclusion from an Irish government. The other faction which includes in-cludes Important business men, fought successfully to prevent the declaration of a provisional povernment for Ulster when the home rule bill passed the third reading in the house of commons. The first faction now clamors to have the provisional government set up when the king sipna the bill, while the more conservative con-servative business interests counsel delay de-lay until the Irish pa rliament in Dublin is launched. Sir Edward Carson sided with the latter faction at the last conference con-ference of leaders here. Meantime the volunteers, saturated with the military spirit, are becoming impatient. im-patient. Some battalions have even sent deputations of officers to headquarters to ask when the campaign would begin, and the work of keeping the bold spirits quiet Is increasingly difficult. Plan of Campaign. s The headquarters staff has worked out a plan of campaign for hostilities. It la not likely that they will attempt to use this citizen force against trained regulars regu-lars 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 provisional government is set up. Most of the Belfast volunteers are being be-ing formed into four regiments known as the Belfast division, which will act as a police force. A flying column composed com-posed of 3500 picked and paid volunteers, a majority of whom are old soldiers, has been organized as a first line striking force with motor transport capable of conveying it to any part of Ulster In less than four hours. Tills force is armed throughout with new Mausers and possesses pos-sesses ten Maxims of the latest pattern. Certain county regiments, especially those of Antrim and Armagh, would go on active ac-tive service with this column, while other county regiments. Including Londonderry, Lon-donderry, must remain at home to suppress sup-press the Nationalists. Flying Column. If the provisional government were established es-tablished the flying column would be sent to Londenderry where the Nationalists National-ists are strongest, while the east and west Belfast regiments would form double dou-ble cordons around the two Nationalist districts of this city, with Maxims covering cov-ering the principal streets. Information that the Nationalists are bringing in carboys of vitriol which women would pour on the troops from windows as they poured boiling water during the rioting some years ago, has reached Carson's hr-ado.uarters. "If there Is a single art of that kind." said a staff officer, "the building where it is .4one will be entered, wrecked, and every . officer killed." |