IRISH TRIBUNAL DEFIED

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 4 May 1934, Page 7

IRISH TRIBUNAL DEFIED

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REPUBLICAN ARRAIGNED POSSESSOR OF MACHINE GUN GAOL FOR TWELVE MONTHS part may be remitted (United Press Association—By Electric Telegrajin Copyright.) . Received 1.15 p.m. to-day. LONDON, May 3. A prominent Irish Republican., Thomas Barry, who was summoned before. a. military tribunal at Dublin on a charge of possessing a maijjiine-gun ancl 384 rounds of revolver ammunition, Tefused to recognise the court’s jurisdiction on any charge whatever, espeoi. ally in respect to tlie. possession of aims which were, he said, the property of the Republican Army. Barry, who \ Was a director of operations in the « Dish, Army in the civil j war, declared: “It is a, "damnable scan- ■ dal that the Executive Council. should place me oh trial before officers of an army which I once tried to wipe out at the executive's instigation. Barry was sentenced to imprisonment for a year, of -which three months will bo remitted if he enters into recognisances of £IOO to keep the peace for two years. . ~, . .......