ALLEGED PLOTTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1939, Page 5

ALLEGED PLOTTING

RECENT BOMB OUTRAGES UN ENGLAND CHARGES AGAINST TWENTY-ONE MEN & WOMEN. ALL THE ACCUSED REMANDED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, February 2. Twelve persons who have been arrested in London, including Charles James Casey, George Brandon Kane, Daniel Fitzpatrick, Jack Logue, Francis James Burns, John Francis Wharton and John Healy, have been additionally charged with conspiring with otners at Manchester, Liverpool, Cardiff and elsewhere in the United Kingdom to cause explosions. The seven persons arrested at Manchester on January 18, and Mary and Nora Glenn, have been charged with conspiring to cause an explosion at Manchester. All the accused were remanded. The police read a proclamation seized during a raid in Oxford Street, calling on exiled Irishmen to unite and compel a British withdrawal from the Irish Republic.

Following on bomb outrages in England, believed to have been the work of Irish Republican terrorists, several men were arrested in London and Manchester on January 18 and 20. Kane and Casey were charged with being in possession of arms and ammunition with intent to endanger life. Fitzpatrick, Logue and Burns were charged with being concerned together in the possession of explosives and also of five copies of an I.R.A. publication. Wharton was charged with being in possession of an explosive substance. Healy was charged with having bee: in possession for an unlawful purpose of two tons of potassium chlorate and a ton of black oxide of iron. Mary and Nora Glenn and the seven men arrested in Manchester were charged with being in possession of explosives.