Undesirables Hunted Out Of Britain
LONDON. July 29
The House of Lords yesterday read a third time the Prevention of Violence Bill, and tlie House of Commons agreed to its amendment. The Royal Assent to the now Act
was given immediately. Drastic police action was' the immediate result of the passing of the legislation.
Seven of eight men expelled refuse” to go. and will be forcibly sent from the country.
Several suspects left for Dublin from Liverpool by steamer under a strong police guard. The ferry service run in three, instead of two sections, t: cope with the exodus of Irishmen. There were remarkable farewell scenes. Several women became hysterical. Squads of police were rushed to Hyde Park. London, when a crowd mobbed Irish speakers. Three men were arrested. The Independent Cable Service says Sir Dawson Bates, Minister of Homo Affairs, Northern Ireland, has instructed the police to arrest deportees. They will be sent to gaol, and later will bo placed in circumscribed territory in Ulster. The police shepherded six suspects from London, and put them on the Dublin boat at Holyhead,
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Northern Advocate, 31 July 1939, Page 7
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