I.R.A. SUSPECTS LEAVING BRITAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 178, 31 July 1939, Page 7

I.R.A. SUSPECTS LEAVING BRITAIN.

STRINGENT ACTION. Sympathisers May Be Forced To Register. SOME FORCIBLY EJECTED. Independent Cable Service. (Received 9.30 a.m.) LOXDOX, July 30. Several English men and women who are believed to have aided Irish terrorists by passing on information to them and providing them with lodgings, may be compelled to register and live under the conditions of ticket-of-leave.-

Irish domestics are being dismissed sometimes without so much as an inquiiy whether they are sympathetic with the terrorists. The great majority are hostile to the terrorists, but agencies say it is impossible to place them in private houses.

Sir Dawson Bates, Minister of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland. has in-

structed the police to arrest deportees. They will be sent to gaol and later will be placed in circumscribed territory in Ulster.

The police shepherded six suspects from London and put them on the Dublin boat at Holyhead.

Drastic police action was the immediate result of the passing of the Prevention of Violence Act, says a United Press Association message. Seven of the eight men expelled refused to go, and will be forcibly sent from the country.

Several suspects left for Dublin from Liverpool by steamer under a strong police guard. The ferry service ran in three, instead of two, sections to cope with the exodus of Irishmen.

There were remarkable farewell scenes. (Several women became hysterical.

Squads of police were rushed to Hyde Park, London, when a crowd mobbed Irish speakers. Three men were arrested. ,