THE IRISH ARMY.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20496, 15 March 1932, Page 9

THE IRISH ARMY.

FOUR BATTALIONS PARADE. SCENE ON COLLEGE GREEN. POLICE ASSIST DEMONSTRATION (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYKIGIIT.) (Received March 14th, 8.15 p.m.) LONDON, March 14. The Dublin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" reports that four battalions of the Irish Republican Army, headed by pipers and carrying standards which had been hidden for months, marched to College Green. They were received with greater cheers, accompanied by shouts of "Up 1.R.A.," than those given the political prisoners who were released last week. An amazing sceno was witnessed as the battalions performed military evolutions, delighting the crowds, who were frenzied with excitement. The marchers had undergone many hours of secret drilling. The police, whose duty until last week would have been to arrest the marchers, have now been ordered to assist the demonstration by controlling the crowd and regulating the traffic. Another proscribed society which has reappeared is the Cumann Na Ban or Women's Republican Organisation, consisting of several neatly-uniformed girls, whom the police gallantly helped through tho crowd.