I.R.A. DEFIANCE
BELFAST DEMONSTRATION “PROCLAMATION” READ. TALK OF DECISIVE STRUGGLE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, May 5. A proclamation read at an Irish Republican Army demonstration in Belfast last night ordered all I.R.A. units in the six Ulster counties to be in readiness to respond immediately to orders from headquarters. Arms and equipment must be ready. The civil population, it was stated, would receive protection from military interference by Britain. The proclamation added that the strength, discipline, and unity of the I.R.A. had made Britain withdraw her threat of conscription. “We must increase that strength, maintain discipline and unite for the decisive struggle approaching." ULSTER LOYALTY NO CONDITIONS IMPOSED. DECLARATION BY LORD CRAIGAVON. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 4. Referring in the Ulster Parliament today to his . conversations with Mr Chamberlain on the question of conscription in Northern Ireland, Lord Craigavon said that the loyalty of the people of Ulster was not conditional. They could best assist the Mother Country in the present crisis by unquestioning acceptance of the decision of the Imperial Government.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1939, Page 7
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173I.R.A. DEFIANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1939, Page 7
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