I.R.A. DEMONSTRATIONS
POLICE INTERVENE
BATON CHARGES IN BELFAST
(Received February 12, 2.20 p.m.)
BELFAST, February 11.
Making baton charges for two hours, police suppressed I.R.A. demonstrations of sympathy in connection with the Birmingham executions. The 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. Several arrests were made.
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. A party of members of the Irish Republican Army with a car raided a camp at Ballykinler, County Down, overpowered a sentry, and seized 30 rifles.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 36, 12 February 1940, Page 8
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