DRASTIC POLICE ACTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 205, 31 July 1939, Page 9

DRASTIC POLICE ACTION.

SEQUEL TO I.R.A. TERRORISM. GREAT EXODUS BEGINS. LONDON, July 30. Drastic police action was an immediate result- of the final reading in the House of Lords of ’the Prevention of Violence Bill. The ferry service to Ireland during the week-end ran in three instead o( two sections to cope with the exodus of Irish from London. There,, were remarkable farewell scenes, several women becoming hysterical. Seven out of eight persons who had refused to he expelled will he ioreibly sent from the country. Several suspects left for Dublin from Liverpool by steamer under strong police guard. The police siiepherdcd six more I.R.A. suspects from Loudon and put them on the DuMin boat at Holyhead. Squads of police were rushed to Hyde Park to-day when a crowd mobbed Irish speakers. Three men were arrested. An Independent Cable Service message says: Several English men and women who are believed to have aided Irish terrorists by passing on information and providing lodgings may lie compelled to register and live under the conditions of a ticket of leave. Irish servant girls are being dismissed. sometimes without much inquiry as to whether they are sympathetic with the terrorists. The great majority of them are hostile, hut the agencies declare that it is impossible to olac-e them in private houses. Sir Dawson Rates (Minister of Homo Affairs in Northern Ireland) has instructed the nolice to arrest deportees. They will be gaoled and j later placed in circumscribed territory in Ulster.