POLITICAL OFFENCES.
GUNMEN IN BELFAST. LONDON, Oct. 30. The Daily Express says that the shadow of the political gunman is over Belfast. There is a Chicago tang about the recent outrages, and the purpose is to make political trouble. Tlie proscribed Irish Republican Army, thirty-eight of whose members have been arrested during the last three weeks, is setting about its business in grim earnest. Ulster is full of armaments, as farmers are sending for revolvers and rifles on the plea that "tlie Papists are arming, so we must have an armoury of our own.” Lots of these arms, which date back to 1914, have passed to the Republican Army. The authorities have accepted the challenge, but they mean to keep the warfare underground. If a special Act proves insufficient to stop gunrule, then tlie Ulster Government will take further powers.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 286, 31 October 1933, Page 7
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