RAPID POLICE ACTION

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 99, 20 January 1939, Page 9

RAPID POLICE ACTION

Irish Republican . Outrages

ARRESTS IN LONDON AND MANCHESTER

More Explosion Attempts

By Telegraph.—Press assn.— Copyright LONDON, January 18.

After a night of ceaseless activity by the Criminal Investigation Department in connexion with the Irish Republican bomb outrages, the Manchester police announced that seven men have been detained and will appear later in court on charges relating to the Explosive Substances Act.

Meanwhile three special officers concerned with political crime, who had been engaged in the inquiry in London during the night, called at a house in north-west London, after which three men, who are believed to be Irish, accompanied them to a police station, where they remained. I

The men who were arrested at Manchester are Michael Roy Campbell aged 21, of Belfast, Patrick Deviney, aged 25, Jack Glenn, aged 23, Patrick Walsh, aged 32, Joseph Broderick, aged 30, Denis Dugan, aged 33, and Patrick O’Connell, aged 23, all of whom reside in the Manchester neighbourhood. Seditious Literature. A police superintendent gave evidence that seditious literature had been found in the houses of certain of the accused. The accused were remanded for a week. Glenn protested, declaring that they were not associated with the explosives. “Apparently we were arrested because we are Irish,” he said. Campbell, on leaving the dock, shouted, “I must protest against the English occupation of Ireland.” The police intimated that they would probably ask for a further remand on January 25. Another man, Lawrence Lyon, was remanded at Bow Street Police Court. A police sergeant gave evidence that he had discovered a rille and ammunition at Lyon’s residence in Willesden. George Brandon Kane was also remanded after evidence had been given that a revolver and three cartridges had been discovered under his bed. Ammunition Found.

Charles James Casey was re mantled after evidence had been given that two revolvers, a pistol and 70 rounds of ammunition had been found at his flat Daniel Fitzpatrick, Jack Logue, and Francis James Burns were placed in the dock together at Bow Street, Detective-Sergeant Bridges gave evidence that they had been arrested because o£ what had been found in the room which they shared . at Camden Town. Fitzpatrick said, “I was the only one who knew anytUing about the stuff.’’ John Francis Wharton was remanded. The police gave evidence of unspecified discoveries in his rooms in Camden Road. Lyon, Kane-and Casey were charged with being in possession of arms and ammunition with intent to endanger life. Fitzpatrick, Logue, and Burns were charged with being concerned together in the possession of explosives and also five copies of an Irish Republican Army proclamation. Wharton was charged with being in possession , of an explosive substance. All were remanded till January 26. Another Outrage. There was another outrage in the Midlands near Coles Hall, Warwickshire, where a pylon was discovered with one leg cut off. Another pylon was intact, but had explosives attached to it which had not exploded. Three home-made bombs were discovered tied to the legs of a pylon at Frankley, near Birmfrjgham. They were connected by a ffex to a suitcase containing an alarm clock which had stopped, preventing the explosion. Members of the Police Pensions Association are guarding Westminster Abbey as a precaution against damage by bombs. EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL Men Charged In Manchester (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, January 18. In connexion with the bomb incidents, the seven men were charged in Manchester with “knowingly being in possession or of having under their control six barrels each containing one hundredweight of potassium chlorate, a quantity of powdered charcoal, 40 sticks of gelignite, a box of candles, a solidified composition of paraffin wax and potassium chlorate, and other substances, in such circumstances as to give rise to a reasonable suspicion that they did not have possession of them for a lawful object.” “SATIATED ENGLISH” IN PANIC Bombs Cause Beef Steaks To Fall From Forks LONDON, January 18. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent reports that the German newspapers give prominence to the Irish republican bombing outrages in England. “Der Angriff” comments: “When the satiated English read the news over their opulent breakfast tables they were in such a panic that their beef steaks fell from their forks.”

The more serious papers consider that the outrages represent a new episode in Ireland’s centuries-old fight for freedom.