TERRORISM IN EIRE

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22910, 5 January 1940, Page 8

TERRORISM IN EIRE

"AMOUNTS TO THREAT OF REBELLION"

DAIL PASSES BILL TO DEAL WITH SUSPECTS

'ONTTED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIGHT.) (Received January 5, 12.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 4. The Dail Eireann, by 92 votes to 10, passed the second reading of the Emergency Powers Bill introduced by the Minister for Lands (Mr Gerald Boland), authorising the internment of suspected persons without trial. A later message states that the Dail finally passed the bill by 82 votes to nine. It will come before the Senate at 3 p.m. to-day. Mr Boland, speaking at the gency session of the Dail, said that the terrorism against which the Government was seeking powers amounted to a threat of rebellion. He disclosed that the police had seized packets of American dollars consigned to the Irish Republican Army, which was highly organised and in possession of large quantities of arms. ' The terrorists held classes for teaching the manufacture of explosives. One hundred and fifty men had participated in the Phoenix Park raid. • Sometimes, he said, the "Irish Republican Army intended to raid Northern Ireland. Sometimes it intended a coup in Dublin, He added that 1,085,000 rounds of ammunition were taken from the Phoenix Park fdrt, and 234.000 rounds had not been recovered. Mr W. T. Cosgrave (leader of the United Ireland Party), alleging that the Government had failed in its duty in dealing with Irish Republican Army activities in England and Eire, said: "The Government does not appear likely to last long.. If it had any sense of responsibility or a spark of patriotism it would not only resign as a Government, but retire from public life. The Ministers know well that some years ago when they themselves werr seeking ammunition they did not dare to enter a fort." Mr de Valera, Mr Cosgrave said, was reaping the harvest of thp seeds sown when he sabotaged the army and paralysed the police after assuming office. Mr de Valera, replying, said: "Everyone knows that armed men are at large who generally do not want to recognise the Constitution and are ready to use arms whenever it suits them. They are prepared to embroil Eire with her neighbours. The Irish people have given the Government the sole power of determining how national policy is to be prosecuted." DETECTIVE KILLED IN CORK

SHOOTING BY I.R.A. MEMBER

LONDON, January 4. _ Three patrolling detectives challenged two men whom they knew to be members of the Irish Republican Army in Patrick street, the principal thoroughfare of Cork. One of the men immediately fifed, hitting De'tectivj Officer Roche near the heart. The detective's colleagues were about to draw their revolvers when a crowd rushed to their assistance. Both men were detained. Detective Roche died later.

REPRESENTATIONS TO BRITAIN

I.R.A. MEMBERS UNDER DEAtfH SENTENCE LONDON, January 3. The Eire Government has made representations to Britain about the Irish Republican Army men who were sentenced to death on December 15 for murder in the Coventry explosion on June 9. The two men under sentence of death are Peter Barnes, aged 32, and James Richards, aged 29. They were the first to be sentenced to death since the Irish Republican Army outrages began.

■ Savings in Britain —Lord Mottistone, chairman of the National Savings Movement; announced on Wednesday, that the total raised by the campaign now exceeded £40,000,000. He said he could not support the proposal that compulsory savings should be introduced. "I am quite sure that it is far. better for the saving's of the people to be a result of their own voluntary effort."—Rugby, Jan. 3. Russian-Bulgarian Trade —The Russian-Bulgarian trade talks have begun in a cordial atmosphere.— Moscow, Jan, 3.