POLICE HUNT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1939, Page 5

POLICE HUNT

FOR I.R.A. LEADER

REPORTED LANDING IN EIRE DEPARTURE FROM CORK BY CAR. TALK OF REBEL MEETING IN ULSTER. . (Independent Cable Service.) BELFAST. August 7. Armi'il constables today patrolled the border following a. report that the Irish Republican Army ('hiel, Sean Russell. has been smuggled into Ulster to hold it meeting of the rebel parly council. A Dublin message states that, the Civil Guard has received a message from secret service officers that Russell landed at Cohr (the seaport of County Cork, Irish Free State) from a German liner. They stated that two men met Russell at the quay and drove off in an American car. Police leave in Eire and Ulster has been suspended for the next few days to concentrate on a search. REFUSAL TO PLEAD MAN SENT TO GAOL FOR TEN yeAKs. FOUND IN POSSESSION OF GELIGNITE. t (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. Edward Gill has been sentenced at Glasgow to 10 year’s penal servitude, for being in possession of gelignite. Accused refused to plead and after the sentence he pointed to the Crown Prosecutor and declared ."‘That paid agent of British imperialism has branded me as criminal. If it is a crime to love Ireland, thank God I am one.” The judge said: "Your crimes are serious and I must do my duty.”