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Show NATIONALIST ARMY GROWING, 'olunteers Estimated at From Eight, Thousand to Quarter of Million, Dublin. Estimates of the numb.,-of numb.,-of the Irish Nationalist volunteer's vary Between 80,000, which is the Dud. lin Castle figure compiled by the po. lice, and a quarter of a million, which is the estimate given in platform speeches. Careful inquiry shows tin: there are 50,000 in Leinter, which takei the lead; about 4,000 in Ulster (increasing (in-creasing rapidly, 35,000 in Munsttr and 25,000 in Connaught. The difficulty of exact estimate arises irom the fact that the more-ment more-ment is not organized from the center. cen-ter. Forces have sprung up spomaa-eously spomaa-eously in every parish, and bo far are enly loosely connected with the provisional pro-visional central body. There has been a complete wiping out of all class distinctions, dis-tinctions, and the rank and file include in-clude every grade farmers, laborers, shop assistants, clerks, doctors, lawyers law-yers and country gentlemen. There is a very strong leaven of time-eipW soldiers old Connaught Rangers Dublin Fusiliers and Munster Fusi-; Fusi-; iers. and their experience is proving useful in the drill. |