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Show EN GUSH SOLDIERS REFUSE TO FIGHT IN IRELAND Members of the Dorset Regiment Throw Down Arms When Notified They are to be Transferred. London A mutiny of two companies compan-ies of the Dorsetshire regiment sta tioned -in Belfast is reported by tne Pall Mall Gazette. The Pall Mall Gazette's message says: "When the men of the First battalion of the Dorsetshire regiment were paraded In Belfast Saturday and notified that they were being transferred trans-ferred elsewhere, they threw down their arms. A sergeant stepped forward, for-ward, saluted the officers and said: "We will have no home rule here." This is thought in some quarters to be an exaggerated version of the reports of unrest among the regular troops in Ulster. Belfast, Ireland. A letter to the provisional authorities received from an officer at the Curragh station, states that more than 100 officers had resigned, including all the cavalry officers. of-ficers. General Sir Arthur Paget, commanding com-manding the troops in Ireland, had them paraded and told them, according accord-ing to the letter, that he had "an express order and request from the lfinf to ask everv officer to go as ordered that they might never be called upon, to fight, and that if they refused to go there might be a mutiny mu-tiny iu the army, which Would mean a revolution du England, and in six, nljr!tri re : |