POLICE STILL ACTIVE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 11

POLICE STILL ACTIVE

BOMB OUTRAGES

MORE MEN IN COURT

EXPLOSIVES DISCOVERED

i ßeceived February 8, 11.50 .a.m.),

LONDOiN, February 7. N Police activity in connection with the bomb outrages is unabated.

Visits to a number of'houses at night resulted in the discovery of explosives at Manor' Park. Two arrests were made. .

Subsequently Charles McCarthy and his son Thomas were rcmamded at Bow Street, being charged witjh possession of numerous explosives, balloons, and alarm clocks fitted with timing apparatus, discovered after the search at Manor Parlc.

When Michael Mason and Jpseph. Walker were remanded, at Liverpool on charges connected wath tiie bomb outrages, the prosecution intimated that they would be handeid over to the metropolitan police and charged with the others in London. Seven others were remanded on various charges, among which are possession of quantities of arms and explosives. These men include James Shannon and his sons Patrick and John. ,

A series of muffled subterranean explosions, the lid of a manhdle shooting up 20 feet, accompanied by; flames and dense smoke, near the Sfcppney electricity station, alarmed the neighbourhood. The electric lights, went out and several windows were;- crackedPolice, cordoned the street. ' Subsequently it was stated* officially that the explosions were due to a fault in a transformer. Five hundred detonators a&d a considerable quantity .of gelignite were stolen overnight from a stontp quarry, at Wirksworth, in Derbyshire^.

There are now no British troops ia effective occupation in SoutJijarn Ireland, though there may b& scwne small units engaged in the process a$ "wash-ing-up" duties after the British occupation. Britain's interest in the defence of Southern * Ireland was expressly terminated by the Ai fglo-lrish,. Agreement announced in Aipril last.' This agreement declared that ithe. provisions of.the 1921' Agreement which reserved "the defence by seat of the Irish Free State to Britain until such time as the Free State could1 defend itself and under which the'F«s»e State agreed to gfve the use of its harbour facilities to Britain were terminated. The United Kingdom Government agreed to transfer to the Government of Eire the Admiralty property •, and the harbour defences at Berejhaven, Cobh, and Lough Swilly not latejr than December 31 last. There are. hpjweyer, British troops in Northern lijelahd, which is a British military command.