WHEN IRISH EYES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 10 March 1939, Page 3

WHEN IRISH EYES

OUT-OF-DATE TERRORISM •Bv Air Mail-Own Correspondent! LONDON. 9th February. Though the I.R.A. bomb outrages in London and elsewhere have art used I any amount of public indignation they are causing not the faintest suspicion of panic. Truth to tell this s> rt of “terrorism” is completely out of dote. Only the addled brains of cretinkt politicians, survivors of the bmntosaurian epoch, could imagine that a country which had over two million casualties in the Great War, has over a quarter of a million every twelve months on the roads, and has been inured to the prospect of at any moment being drenched with H.E. by invading enemy air raiders, could be seriously impressed by exploding milk-bottle bombs in left luggage offices. Scotland Yard lias perhaps been slightly lax in allowing this lunatic conspiracy to get so far as it has. There was plenty of evidence in recent epidemics of robberies from explosive stores that something was afoot. But already there has been a sweeping round-up. and there is little doubt when they see the gaol walls closing in on them, some of the “bhoys” will start telling all they know. What the powers that be want is to discover whence come the ample funds at the disposal of these benighted miscreants. Maiming milkmen and frightening railway clerks is a queer sort of “war ” It has hardly ruffled the popular concentration on soccer pools so far