BOMB TERRORISM
MORE ARRESTS IN BRITAIN TWO MEN AT SOW STREET. THREE BEFORE COURT IN BIRMINGHAM. Jy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, February 20. James Connolly, aged 23 and Francis McGowan, aged 24, labourers, wore charged at Bow Street with possessing explosives and were remanded till February 23. The Court entrances and the public gallery were heavily guarded. The police gave evidence that in addition to explosives, they found 33 sheets of notepaper embossed with the Royal Arms. Thomas McGill, Robert McCann and Hugh McCluskey, of Belfast, were remanded for a week in custody, at Birmingham, under the Explosives Act, on a charge of possessing made-made bombs and a quantity of explosive moterial. They were described as prominent members of the I.R.A. The police gave evidence that McCluskey said: “We must shut up, because one of our fellows went to Australia and they got him there.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1939, Page 5
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149BOMB TERRORISM Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1939, Page 5
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