MURDER IN IRELAND

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 145, 20 June 1936, Page 10

MURDER IN IRELAND

BAN ON THE I.R.A. CELEBRATIONS FORBIDDEN MEMBER SEXT TO GAOL United Press Association—By Ulcctrlc Telegraph—Copyright. (Received June 20, 2 p.m.) DUBLIN, This Day. A military tribunal sentenced Maurice Twomey to three years' imprisonment on a charge of being a member of the Irish Republican Army, arid also three months' imprisonment for refusing to account for his actions and movements. The president of the Court pointed out that . two documents found in. Twomey's room referred to a recent murder and a man who gave evider.ca on another murder charge. A detective stated in evidence that Twomey refused to answer questions relating to the death of Vice-Admiral Somerville and another murdered man, and also as to whether the I.R.A. had decreed the murders. The Free State Government has formally declared the I.R.A. an illegal organisation and prohibited its celebrations on June 22. The I.R.A. had planned a ceremony on Sunday at the graveside of the Irish patriot Wolf* Tone at Bodenstown, where Mr. de Valera participated in an official pilgrimage and military parade on June 6. Extremist Republicans,' holding that they alone are entitled to commemorate the death of Wolfe Tone, since the Anglo-Irish treaty hav§ insisted on having their own demonstration in recent years. Trains have been arranged from all parts of Ireland for Sunday, and speculation has been aroused as to how the I.R.A. will take the rebuff. The official statement asserts that the I.R.A. was banned because it uses arms, and also in view of recent crimes and violence. It also warns all citizens to refrain from attending the Republican demonstration. Seventy Irish Republican Army men, including Maurice Twomey, chief of staff of the "I.R.A. Times," were arrested throughout the country at approximately the same hour on May 21 under the Public Safety Act. This is the largest Republican round-up since Mr. de Valera came into office. Twomey was taken into custody while returning from Mass. PROTESTjiY PERSIA BRITISH SOVEKEIGNTIT BAHREIN ISLAND (Received June 20, 1 p.m.) GENEVA, June 19. Persia has protested to the Leagu* . of Nations against Britain's "claim" to sovereignty over Bahrein Island. i Bahrein Island ("Two Seas") is th® ■ largest of a group of islands half-way ; up the Persian Gulf near the Arab coast, and is the headquarters of ex--1 tensive pearl fisheries and a distri* ' buting centre for the adjacent main--1 land. Bahrein has been in treaty re- : lations with the Government of India ' since 1820. In 1880 the ruler engaged not to make treaties with any other State, and in 1923 the active control of affairs was handed over to the present ruler, the Sheik Sir Hamid bm Isa A 1 Khalifah. K.C.1.E., C.5.1., who is at present visiting England. SMUGGLERS BROWNED LAUNCH CAPSIZES IN JAPAM (Received June 20, 1 p.m.) SEOUL (Korea), June 19. A motor-launch packed with 129 ! Koreans, and bound for Kyushu in a order to smuggle goods into Japan m r defiance of the immigration laws, capJ sized in heavy seas, 100 of the occuI pants being drowned. DIRECTORIAL CABLES AND WIRELESS, LTD. (Received June 20, 2.25 p.m.) LONDON, June 19. The City Editor of the "New* Chronicle" says that reorganisation ot Cables and Wireless involved the rea signation of one managing director s Sir Norman Leslie, and that, unliK* 1 Mr. J. C. Denlson Pender, who re- " tains his governorship of the holding company. Sir Norman will resign his directorship in that company too. Treasury approval is required of the chairmanship of the operating company Mr. Wilshaw, joint managing , director, is the favoure,i > The position carries a salary of £15,000 @ year. _ =^==^== —