EXECUTION OF TERRORISTS
MPE REFUSED TO INTERVENE it JUSTIFICATION FOR THEIR CRIME PreM Asioeiation—By Telegraph—Copyright . LONDON, February 8 The " * Daily Telegraph’s ’ -Vaticau City correspondent says it is under stood that the Pope’s intervention was sought on behalf of Barnes and Richards but His Holiness refused on the ground that they had had a fair trial, while the crime could not be justified or, extenuated, even by the excuse ot patriotic motive. DEMONSTRATION IN NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR GROUNDS INVADED NEW YORK, February 7. I.R.A. sympathisers invaded the closed World’s. Fair grounds,, lowered to half-mast the Eire flag, and laid a wreath in the Irish pavilion m sympathy with Barnes and Richards, who whre hanged for the bomb outrages.
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Evening Star, Issue 23496, 9 February 1940, Page 8
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118EXECUTION OF TERRORISTS Evening Star, Issue 23496, 9 February 1940, Page 8
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