MORE ARRESTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 January 1939, Page 5

MORE ARRESTS

LR.A. BOMB OUTRAGES IN BRITAIN

ACTION BY POLICE IN MANCHESTER

PROTEST FROM THE DOCK.

AGAINST “OCCUPATION OF IRELAND.”

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, January 18.

After a night of ceaseless activity by the Criminal Investigation Department in connection with the Irish Republican bomb outrages, the Manchester police announced that seven men have been detained and will appear later in court on charges relating to the Explosive Substances Act.

Meanwhile three special officers concerned with political crime, who had been engaged in the inquiry in London during the night, called at a house in north-west London, after which three men, who are believed to be Irish, accompanied them to a police station, where they remained. The men who were arrested at Manchester are Michael Roy Campbell, aged 21, of Belfast, Patrick Deviney, aged 25, Jack Glenn, aged 23, Patrick Walsh, aged 32, Joseph Broderick, aged 30, Denis Dugan, aged 33, and Patrick O’Connell, aged 23, all of whom reside in the Manchester neighbourhood.

A police superintendent gave evidence that seditious literature had been found in the houses of certain of the accused. The accused were remanded for a week.

Glenn protested, declaring that they were not associated with the explosives. “Apparently we were arrested because we are Irish,” he said. Campbell, on leaving the dock, shouted, . T must protest against the English occupation of Ireland.” The police intimated that they would probably ask for a further remand on January 25. There was another outrage in the Midlands near Coles Hall, Warwickshire, where a pylon was discovered with one leg cut off. Another pylon was intact, but had explosives attached to it which had not exploded.

EXPLOSIVES SEIZED. CHARGES IN MANCHESTER. (Independent Cable Service.) i LONDON, January 18. In connection with the bomb incidents, the 1 seven men were charged in Manchester with “knowingly being in possession or of'having under their control six barrels each containing one hundredweight of potassium chlorate, a quantity of powdered charcoal, 40 sticks of gelignite, a box of candles, a solidified composition of paraffin wax and potassium chlorate, and other substances, in such circumstances as to give rise to a reasonable suspicion that they did not have possession of them for a lawful object.” CLUMSY ABUSE. NAZI PRESS COMMENTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, January 18. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent reports that the German newspapers give prominence to the Irish republican bombing outrages in England. “Der Angriff” comments: “When the satiated English read the news over their opulent breakfast tables they were in such a panic that their beef steaks fell from their forks.” The more serious papers consider that the outrages represent a new episode in Ireland’s centuries-old fight for freedom. POSSESSION OF PISTOL. MAN REMANDED FOR WEEK. (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, January 19. A strong police guard was stationed at the Bow Street Court when a labourer, Michael Cullen, appeared on the charge of being in possession of a pistol and ammunition with intent to endanger life. He declared that he got the pistol from a friend who had gone to Ireland. Accused was remanded a week, bail being refused. ALARM IN GLASOW. ’ POLICE CORDON ROUND SHIPYARDS. (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, January 19. Two intruders in a Clyde shipyard, acting suspiciously in the vicinity of the Clyde Valley power station raised fears of bombings in Glasgow. The men escaped after some engine-drivers had given an alarm. The police have thrown a cordon round the shipyards.