I.R.A. TERRORISM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1939, Page 5

I.R.A. TERRORISM

DRASTIC POLICE ACTION IN BRITAIN GREAT EXODUS FROM LONDON. SEVERAL SUSPECTS DEPORTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON. July 30. Drastic police action was an immediate result of the final reading in the House of Lords of tin 1 Prevent ion of Violence Bill, the agreement by the House of Commons to tin 1 amendments made, and the speedy Loyal Assent, by which the police are empowered to conduct a vast roundup of members of the Irish Republican Army in England.

, The ferry service to Ireland during the weekend ran in three instead of two sections to cope with the exodus of Irish from London. There were remarkable farewell scenes, several women becoming hysterical. The police had intensified precautions throughout Britain as a result of information that last-minute bombings were planned. The public was excluded from the Houses of Parliament. at the weekend. While the House of Lords was rushing the Bill through on Friday, LR.A. members were striking final blows. Dozens of public telephones were put out of action in the West End during the morning. Seven out of eight persons who had refused to be expelled will be forcibly sent from the country. Several suspects left for Dublin from Liverpool by steamer under strong police guard. Squads of police rushed to Hyde Park today when a crowd mobbed Irish speakers. Three men were arrested. STRICT PRECAUTIONS DISMISSAL OF IRISH SERVANT GIRLS. DEPORTEES TO BE ARRESTED IN ULSTER. (Independent Cable Service.) LONDON, July 30. Several English men and women who are believed to have aided Irish terrorists by passing on information and providing lodgings may be compelled to register and live under the conditions of a ticket of leave. Irish servant girls are being dismissed, sometimes without much inquiry as to whether they are sympathetic with the terrorists. . The great majority of them are hostile, but the agencies declare that it is impossible to place them in private houses.

Sir Dawson Bates, Minister of Home Affairs in Northern Ireland, has instructed the police to arrest deportees. They will be jailed and later placed in circumscribed territory in Ulster.