I.R.A. BOAST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 179, 1 August 1939, Page 7

I.R.A. BOAST.

REIGN OF TERROR

Caused Millions Of Pounds Of Damage In England. FATALITY A MISTAKE. Independent Cable Service. (Received 10.30 a.m.) DUBLIN, July 31. In an interview after his deportation from England, Dennis Murphy, alias John Walsh, "the man with 'a slouch," said the Irish Republican Army was financed by rich Irish people, mainly in Australia and America, and by pennies from the poor in Eire.

Continuing, Murphy said: "The war continues. For every one of us leaving England there will be 100 volunteers ready to take his place. We declared war against England because the position of Ulster is becoming intolerable.

"We warned the Home .Secretary that Ulster must be joined to the rest of Eire and that our people must not be put into prison without trial. He ignored that so we started military operations. Since then there has been guerilla war.

Winning the War. "We are winning , . We have had only 100 casualties—Army volunteers sent to prison. We have done millions of pounds' worth of damage. Ac-cording to a statement in the House of Commons no other army has achieved that with so few casualties. '"There are two things I would like to point out. The first is that all our bombings are aimed at the destruction of property, not human life. The Kind's Cross bomb was timed to go off in the early hours of the morning. Something happened to the timing apparatus and it exploded 12 hours sooner. That was unfortunate, but those things happen in war.

'"Secondly, we do not receive any (iennaii money. Nazis try to make publicity out of us and we cannot help it. We would not take Nazi money if it was offered to us.

'"We do not like fiermany any more than we like England."

A road eweeper in London found an unexploded bomb wrapped in brown paper lying at the foot of a wall surrounding Kingston gasworks. Police disconnected the wires attached to the bomb.

A message from Rome states that sympathy with the Irish Republican Army is expressed by Count Ciano's organ. "Telegrafo." It says: "The Irish bombs are evidence of the atrocious injustices on which Britain founded her Kmpire. Irishmen cannot forgive the miseries of the past."

MAJESTIES GUARDED. Special Police For Protection From I.R.A. FURTHER EXPULSION ORDERS. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON. July 31. ■Vfnile special police guarded the King and Queen and the Princesses against Irish Republican Army outrages when they left Euston for Balmoral, the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, signed an additional 10 orders expelling I.R.A. members suspected of operating in the provinces. The total expulsion orders are 19.