IRISH TERRORISTS

Evening Star, Issue 23495, 8 February 1940, Page 8

IRISH TERRORISTS

DEATH SENTENCES CARRIED OUT NO DEMONSTRATIONS AT PRISON Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 7. Barnes and Richards were executed in Birmingham Gaol at 9 a:m. Two notices to that effect were posted on the prison gates at 9.7 a.m. There were no demonstrations. A YOUNG REPUBLICAN LONDON. February 7. (Received February 8, at 12.15 p.m.) Brendan Beham, of Dublin, aged 16, was charged at Liverpool with being in possession of explosives. said: “ I have no interest in the proceedings.” The remark was construed as a plea of not guilty. He grinned during the hearing, once shouting “That’s a lot of damned lies.” The police evidence showed ■ that the boy. in a statement, revealed that he was sent over to replace arrested men. and reorganise further operations in Liverpool. He intended to put bombs in big stores. Beham added that he had been recruited by the I.R.A. and trained m the use of explosives. He was sentenced to three years’ Borstal treat* meat. MOURNING IN EIRE CINEMAS AND THEATRES CLOSED LONDON, February 7. (Received February 8, at 2 p.m.) Eire is mourning the execution of Barnes and: (Richards. Sports fixtures have been cancelled and cinemas and theatres closed. The Cork Harbour •Board flew flags halfmast and observed a miraite’s silence. The condemned men walked together to the scaffold and died simultaneously on gallows erected side by side. The Dublin Reprieve Committee, in a statement, said: “England rejected the pleas for mercy and has shown that she oarcS nothing for the goodwill of Ireland. She is equally contemptuous of the opinion of all sections of the Irish people.” SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS / ' POLICE TO VHATCH PROTEST MEETINGS LONDON, February 7. (Received February 8, at 1 p.m.) A special guard is being maintained on the Dublin residence of Sir JohnMaffey, and the police will watch tha protest meetings to-night. Vigilance has not been relaxed in Birmingliam, the police patrolling all points where members of the I.R.A, might endeavour to strike. The London precautions include % close watch on all Government buildings and an extra guard on Parliament and Westminster Abbey.