IRISH REPUBLICANS

Evening Star, Issue 23499, 13 February 1940, Page 9

IRISH REPUBLICANS

DEMONSTRATIONS SUPPRESSED BATON CHARGES BY POLICE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright' BELFAST, February 11. The police, with baton charges lasting two hours, suppressed demonstrations of sympathy by members of tha I.R.A. in connection with the Birmingham executions. The crowd fled, but reassembled. Men and women threw, bottles, brickbats, and paving stones. A youth hurled a huge rock into a car full of police, and an inspector threatened to fire his revolver. Several peopla were arrested. The police raided a club in Armagh!! and prevented the reading of sympathetic resolutions from a window. Soma churchgoers wore crepe armlets. Revolver shote were ’fired in Cork barracks and - wounded Eireann sergeants, one critically. A private wat arrested, ARMOURED CARS PATROLLING STREETS SEARCH FOR STOLEN ARMS. BELFAST, February 12. Thirteen people were arrested. It is now stated that the Ballykinlar raider* stole Bren guns and 100 rifles. A meeting at Mullingar, North Ireland, heard the last letter from Richards to his sister. “ I have just been told I am to die in the morning. I shall walk out smiling, thinking of God and the good cause and the good men who have gone before fighting the same cause.” Armoured cars are patrolling Belfast all night after street fighting in which thousands of demonstrators clashed with over 100 police. Other police and soldiers are scouring the country, combing out hideouts in County Down, and making efforts to discover the arms stolen from Ballykinlar, which is just north of'Dundrura Bav. The Ballykinlar raiders sent in a “ scouting party ” of four men, who overpowered and gagged a sentry. A! car then drove up, while raiders broko into the armoury. A ’rifleman 'named O’Neill, aged 19, surprised them, but was gagged and bundled into the' car and taken to secret headquarters in Belfast. He was released after nin* hours, * . A Tinperarv speaker declared: It i* the British Government against whom we fight. They partitioned our country.”'