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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 262, 3 August 1939, Page 9

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Can Continue For Years Longer POSITION OF BRITISH IN IRELAND Question Of Reprisals Is Raised By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. LONDON, August 1. The “News Chronicle” says that, according to a letter of undoubted authenticity signed by Michael Doyle, director of publicity for the Irish Republican Army in Dublin, this organization boasts that it can continue its terrorist campaign for two and a half years or longer, according to the measure of support received in Ireland. The cost is approximately £l2OO a week, although the terrorists themselves are not paid. Reprisals against British people in Irelancl. who number 40,000 in only two cities, are now threatened. I.R.A. volunteers undergo a technical military training for an unspecified period of years to equip then) for the complete campaign. Sir Walter Moncktou, AttorneyGeneral at the Duchy of Cornwall, will examine objections against deportation by men who are subject to it. The Home Secretary, Sir Samuel iloare, has signed an expulsion order against the London girl, aged 19, who was detained by the police yesterday on suspicion of I.R.A. activities. He has also signed orders against five other persons. RIVERS PATROLLED Flooding Plot Discovered (Independent Cubic Service.)' (Received August 2, .1.1.20 p.m.) LONDON, August 2. The banks of three Essex rivers over an area of 75 miles are being patrolled by policemen disguised as labourers following a discovery b.v Scotland Yard of a plot by the Irish Republican Army to blow up the walls and sluices and flood thousands of acres of farmland.