I.R.A. TERRORISM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1940, Page 6

I.R.A. TERRORISM

AMOUNTS TO A THREAT OF REBELLION DECLARATION BY MINISTER IN DAIL. EMERGENCY POWERS SOUGHT BY GOVERNMENT. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) DUBLIN. January 3. The Minister of Lands (Mr Boland) speaking at the Dail emergency session, said tne terroi ■ ism against which the Government was seeking powers amounted to a threat of rebellion. z He disclosed that the police had seized packets of American dollars consigned to ths Irish Republican Army, which was highly organised and in possession of large quantities of arms. Sometimes, he said, the I.R.A. intended to raid Northern Ireland. Sometimes it intended a coup in Dublin. He added that 1.084,000 rounds of ammunition were taken from the Phoenix Park Fort. Of this 234.000 rounds had not been recovered.

PLAIN TALK

MR COSGRAVE DENOUNCES GOVERNMENT. DAYS OF 1923 RECALLED. (Received This Day. 12.50 p.m.) DUBLIN. January 3. Mr W. T. Cosgrave (Leader of the Opposition), alleging that the Government had failed in its duty regaiding I.R.A. activities in England and in Eire, said: “The Government does not appear likely to last long. If it had any sense of responsibility or a spark of patriotism, it would not only resign as a Government, but would retire from public life. Ministers know well that some years ago, when they themselves were‘seeking ammunition, they did not dare to enter a fort." Mr de Valera, Mr Cosgrave said, was reaping the harvest of the seeds sown in 1923. when he sabotaged the Army and paralysed the police after assuming office.