IRISH BOUNDARY REPORT

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12298, 18 November 1925, Page 7

IRISH BOUNDARY REPORT

REPUBLICANS PLAN RAID DETECTIVES ORDERED TO SHOOT SCOTLAND YARD ALERT By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Gopyj-ight (Sydney "Sun" Cable.) LONDON, November 18. The “Daily Mail” says that the Irish Republicans are bitterly hostile to the Boundary Commission and have platted to wreck or delay its findings. Armed men were to make a lightning da£h upon the commission’s office in London, and ransack its contents. These include most valuable documents, consisting of _ special survey sheets, maps, historical records, secret- evidence, confidential communications regarding commercial interests, and* opinions of local authorities. Here are kept also the commissioners’ draft reports. Detectives are ordered to shoot, if necessary. Scotland Yard is also watching Irishmen suspected of sympathy with the Republicans. The boundary between Nortlf Ire. land (Ulster) and the Irish Free State has been a -vexed question since the Irish settlement. The commission set up under a provision of the treaty consists of Mr Justice Feetkam, of South Africa; Professor John McNeill, representing the Irish Free State; and Mr Joseph R. Fisher, appointed by the British Government to ' represent Ulster Various rumonrs have appeared to the effect that the commission proposes to allot a considerable area of the disputed territory to the Free State.