MURDER THREAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1940, Page 5

MURDER THREAT

MADE BY THE I.R.A. WARNING TO SCOTLAND YARD. DUBLIN SEARCH FOR STOLEN AMMUNITION. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON, December 30. The “Daily Mail” discloses that Belfast police warned Scotland Yard of the discovery of copies of the I.R.A. organ “War News,” declaring that if England carries out savage vengeance one hundred English lives will be forfeit for every Irish life taken. Six tons, namely, one-third of the stolen ammunition, has been recovered, states a Dublin message.

The search continues, specially in the cellars of old quayside stores and houses.

Sixteen suspects have been remanded, one of whom was sentenced to three months’ jail for contempt of court. Three others have been brought handcuffed from the country. Police made a lightning raid on a house in Dartry Road, Rathmines, where they seized a pirate radio station. recently operating three times a week. The announcer was concluding with the statement: “This station is closing down for a short period,” when listeners heard a scuffle and the station went dead. Police took four men. including the announcer, and the apparatus away in a lorry. As a protest against its report cf the Londonderry Gaol mutiny, members of the I.R.A. exploded a bomb in the Belfast office of the "Dublin Irish Press,” Mr de Valera's newspaper, causing considerable damage. Nobody was injured.

The Dail has been summoned by the Eire Government to meet on Wednesday. a radio report states. It is understood that the Government will seek greater powers to deal with I.R.A. activities. with special reference to the right to imprison without trial. Eight Dublin men were sent to trial by a special military court because they could not account to the police for their movements since last Saturday. Another man was remanded'in connection with the raid on the munitions dump in Phoenix Park.