ASTONISHING CANDOUR

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 48, 25 August 1931, Page 9

ASTONISHING CANDOUR

; IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY ; "LEADERS'* INTERVIEWED LONDON, 24th August. [ The "Daily Express" special corres- [ pondent at Dublin interviewed the lead- • crs of the Irish Republican Army at the offices of the Gaelic newspaper | "An Phoblacht." | _They are Prank Ryan, an ex-school-i master, who is slightly deaf, bnt whose i blue eyes are ablaze with a burning , zeal for his cause, and Geoffrey Couli ter, recently of Trinity College, Dub- : lin, a, studious-looking youth wearing a : khaki shirt, riding breeches, and milit tary top-boots. i The correspondent talked to the two I men for nearly three hours, the Irish- : men answering his questions with aston- > ishing candour. : They said plainly that the Irish' Republican Army believes in force, and , the taking of life in certain circum--1 stances. During a discussion on the ethics of killing, Ryan disclosed the consideration which would decide whether death i sentences would be enforced. "We regard the Republican Army as being still at war with Britain," he said. "The Free State Ministers are merely agents of the British Criminal Investigation Department. When that Department meddles with politics it interferes with matters that do not concern it. "We need only give the word, and every Criminal Investigation Department man would bo wiped off the streets of Dublin in (he night. England will soon lie concerned in another war thai, will end her rule in Ireland."