CONSPIRACY CHARGES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 February 1939, Page 7

CONSPIRACY CHARGES

ALLEGED LR.A. ACTIVITIES IN MANCHESTER

TEN ACCUSED BEFORE COURT. SOME INCRIMINATING DOCUMENTS PRODUCED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, February 10. When the. nine accused who were arrested in Manchester on February 2 and John Gavahan, who was arrested on February 4, were charged with conspiracy at Manchester, the prosecution alleged that all were members of the LR.A.

The prosecution referred to abortive explosions and produced copies of an LR.A. proclamation and a map of Manchester on which police stations, power stations, barracks and railway stations were marked.. Certain of the accused were found to be in possession of documents headed “Battalion Orders,” declaring that conventions, by a two-thirds majority, resolved that the time was ripe to attack England. General headquarters in Dublin ordered all units in Britain to begin special military training, threatening noncompliants with orders with the possibility of death. The discovery also is reported of documents headed “Methods of War,” declaring that members must not adopt the Black and Tans' bloodthirstiness but attack public services without causing loss of life.

A ten-inch canister wrapped in paper and bearing the letters LR.A. was found in a letter box at the Charing Cross Labour Exchange, London. It is believed to have contained an exlosive wfiich the attendant rendered harmless by plunging in water.

Those arrested at Manchester were Michael Roy Campbell, Patrick Deviney, Jack Glenn, Patrick Walsh, Joseph Broderick, Denis Dugan, .Patrick O’Connell, Mary Glenn and Nora Glenn.