
8 MOTOR-CYCLE CORPS OF THE U.V.F. DISTRIBUTE ARMS 1914 Early in April Major Crawford of the U.V.F. and his associates had chartered a steamer, the S.S. Mountjoy. They had bought, in Germany, 35,000 second-hand Mauser rifles and some 2 million rounds of ammunition. So great was the silence surrounding these events that no photographers were permitted to be present and we have no actualité photographs. What is seen here is the subsequent and highly efficient distribution of those arms Read More