I.R.A. DISORDERS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 119, 13 February 1940, Page 10

I.R.A. DISORDERS

Police Clash With Crowds TROUBLES IN ULSTER Raid On Government Armoury By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. (Received February 12,11.55 p.m.) BELFAST, February 12. Making baton charges for two hours, police yesterday suppressed Irish Republican Army demonstrations of sympathy in connexion with the execution in Birmingham of the two LR.A. terrorists, Barnes and Richards, last Wednesday. Ihe crowd fled, but reassembled. Men and women threw bottles, brickbats, and paving-stones, and a youth hurled a huge rock into a car full of police. An inspector threatened to fire his revolver. Thirteen arrests were made. Armoured cars have been patrolling Belfast all night after the street fight ing, in which thousands of demonstiators clashed with over 100 police. Other police and soldiers are scorning the country, combing out bideouts in County Down, and making efforts to discover Bren guns and hundreds of rilles stolen from Ballykinlar, which is just north of Dundrum Bay. A party of members ot the LILA, with a car yesterday raided a camp at Ballykinlar, County Down, and overpowered a sentry. The raiders sent in a “scouting party” of four men, who overpowered and gagged the sentryand' the raiders then broke the armoury. A rifleman named O’Neill, aged 19, surprised them, but was gagged and bundled into a car and taken to secret headquarters in Belfast. He was released after nine hours. , , n , IT . A Tipperary speaker declared: it is’ the British Government against whom we fight. They partitioned our country. A meeting at Mullingar, North Ireland, heard the last letter from'Richards to his sister, which stated: ‘I have just been told I am to die in the morning. I shall walk out smiling, thinking of God, and of the good cause and the good men who have gone before, lighting for the same cause.” Police raided a club in Armagh and prevented the reading of sympathetic resolutions from a window. Revolver shots which were fired in the Cork barracks wounded Eireann army sergeants, one of whom is in a critical condition. A private was arrested. ■ ' . . The Supreme Court in Dublin has upheld the legality of the anti-terrorist Bills which give the Government power to intern without trial men suspected of activities against the State.