A MINIATURE ARSENAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9391, 13 December 1920, Page 5

A MINIATURE ARSENAL.

A 9 -DISCOVERY IN DUBLIN

•--.: ' LONDON, December 11. Military raided a bicycle repair shop at Dublin and found four sacks of gelignite, and also large quantities of ammunition and revolvers, and bombs in various stages of manufacture. Three arrests were made. '■The shop was kept by Heron and Lawless, and was situate in Parnell street. The factory dccupie'd the whole oi: the basement. It contained a wellinstalled furnace crucible, also electric machinery, four moulds holding freshly cast bombs cases still warm, and pattern mould-boxes and equipment, all up to date. Four bench vices were used. Four hundred hand-bombs were found. . The loading was done in a dangerously haphazard manner. Bags of detonators were all over the place. Loose powder was . scattered on a table, and cartridges of all kinds, mixed together with bags of gelignite, were lying about. A loaded revolver was within each workman's reach.

LONDON, December 12.

The switchboard used in connection with the electric motor used in a Parnell Street factory was installed by the Dublin Corporation, also a new type of bomb containing a glass vessel or capsule. The contents are unknown, likewise the incomplete portions of an infernal machine. Heron is a member of the Republican Brotherhood." He was interned after the 1916 rebellion. He organised the Irish Transport Workers' Union. Lawless is j an extreme Sinn Feiner, who was deported in 1916 1 and'sentenced after the rebellion to ten years' penal servitude. He:was arrested last week. FieldMarshal''Frehch'.s proclamation refers to the recent crimes, particularly the massacre of Macroom, and enjoins all loyal subjects to aid. in maintaining in :pea fee the supremacy of the_Crown.and "obey the' Orders and regulations of the military. ' ■'■■' : " . '