PRISONS READY

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1931, Page 7

PRISONS READY

RAID ON REVOLUTIONARIES IRISH PUBLIC SAFETY BILL DRASTIC POWER CONFEREED NO APPEAL FROM COURTS I SEVERITY AMAZES DUBLIN By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. ' Recd. 7.15 p.m. London, Otc. 16. It is reported the Irish Free State authorities are hurriedly preparing internment camps ready for the hundreds of arrests which are expected when a swoop is made on revolutionary organisations on Saturday immediately after the Govenor-General signs the Public Safety Bill, which passed its second reading by 82 votes to 66. The police and army are preparing exhaustively to meet possible armed resistanceArmy tribunals are empowered by the Bill to try offenders without. appeaL Dublin is amazed at the terms of the Bill and the feeling is prevalent that the Government possesses information the seriousness of which has not yet been disclosed. Mr. Richard Anthony, a Labourite, on the second reading in the crowded Dail, supported the measure. He expressed the opinion that its opponents’ arguments were directed to the protection not of quiet citizens but of angels of the night who went about with blackened faces and guns in their hands. The President of the Council, Mr. W. T. Cosgrave, read a long list of unconvicted crimes, including the shooting of a police superintendent.