LEAVING LONDON

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20003, 31 July 1939, Page 5

LEAVING LONDON

MANY I.R.A. SUSPECTS POLICE PROVIDE ESCORTS ANGRY SCENE IN PARK ULSTER TAKING ACTION (Eire. Tel. Copyright—United i’ross Assn.) (Reed. July 31, 10 a.m.) LONDON, July 30. Drastic police action was the immediate result of the Prevention of Violence Act.

Seven of eight expelled persons .vho refused to go, will be forcibly sent from the country. Several suspects left yesterday for Dublin from Liverpool by steamer under a. strong police guard. The ferry service ran three instead of two sections to cope with the exodus of Irish from London. There were remarkable, farewell scenes, several women, becoming hysterical. Squads of police were rushed' to Hyde Park yesterday when a crowd mobbed Irish speakers. Three men were arrested. Shepherded to Holyhead The police to-day shepherded six Irish Republican Army suspects from London and put them aboard -the Dublin boat at Holyhead. The Independent Cable Service reports that several English men and women wbo are believed to have aided the Irish terrorists by passing on, information and 1 providing lodgings, may be compelled to register and live ainder conditions of ticket-of-leave Irish servant girls are being dismissed, sometimes without as much as an inquiry as -to whether they are sympathetic with the terrorists. The great majority are: hostile, but the agencies declare -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 gaoled and later placed in a circumscribed: terrh lory in Ulster.