TROUBLE IN FREE STATE
NUMEROUS OUTRAGES. UNDERGROUND ORGANISATION. REPUBLICAN ARMY'S ACTIVITIES. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, August 11. The Irish Free State Minister of Justice, Mr J. Fitzgerald-Kenney, in a statement says:—“Undoubtedly underground organisations in the Irish Free State are becoming bolder. “The members are drilling and committing outrages under the noses of the police, who are unable to cope with the Increasing menace of lawlessness, owing to a conspiracy of silence among the general population, which Is afraid to perform Its civil duty, owing to terrorism and intimidation of Jurors.
“The Government is aware that the so-called ‘Republican Army' is drilling, and it is determined to hold the murder gang In check and to prevent a repetition of the murders which have blackened the history of the Free State."
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18405, 12 August 1931, Page 7
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