American Bombers Fatal Test Flight
(Received 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, July 29. Three American:; were killed in a crash when on a test flight in an American bomber before its delivery to the Air Ministry, in the vicinity of Birkenhead. In connection with the arrival in England of the first of these bombers from the United States, a British Official Wireless message says they have a speed of 246 miles per hour, a range of 1700 miles, and have guns in the nose and at the rear. Each carries a crew of four men.
I.R.A. Repercussions On Innocent Countrypeople
(Received 12 Noon.) LONDON, July 30
Several English men and women, who arc believed to have aided Irish terrorists by passing on information to them and providing them with lodgings, may be compelled to register and live under the conditions of tickets-of-leave.
Irish domestics are being dismissed, sometimes without so much as an inquiry whether they are sympathetic with the terrorists.
The great majority are hostile to the terrorists, but agencies say it is impossible to place them in private houses.
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Northern Advocate, 31 July 1939, Page 7
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