BRITISH POLICE
PASSING OF ANTI-VIOLENCE LEGISLATION I.R.A. SUSPECTS (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, July 30. Drastic police action was an immediate result of the enactment of the Prevention of Violence legislation, by which the police are empowered to conduct a vast round-up of members of the Irish Republican Army in England. The ferry service to IreLmd during the weekend ran in three sections instead of two in order to cope with the exodus of Irish from London. There were remarkable farewell scenes, -;everal women becoming hysterical. Seven 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. Police shepherded six I.R.A. suspects from London and put them on the boat for' Dublin at Holyhead.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 26, 31 July 1939, Page 9
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