ATTACK ON ENGLAND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 36, 13 February 1939, Page 7

ATTACK ON ENGLAND

ALLEGED I.R.A. PLOT POLICE EVIDENCE INCRIMINATING DOCUMENTS [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] Received Feb. 12, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 10. When the following men, who were arrested at Manchester, John Gavahan, Michael Roy Campbell, Patrick Deviney, Jack Glenn, Patrick Walsh, Joseph Broderick, Denis Dugan, and Patrick O’Connor, and the sisters, Mary and Norah Glenn, were charged with conspiring to cause explosions in Manchester, the prosecution alleged that all were members of the Irish Republican Army. The prosecution refererd to abortive explosions and produced copies of the I.R.A. proclamation and a map of Manchester, on which were marked police stations, power stations, barracks, and railway stations, and which were found in the possession of certain of the accused. The documents were headed by battalion orders declaring that a convention, by a two-thirds majority, had resolved that the time was ripe to attack England. General headquarters in Dublin had ordered all units, in Britain to begin special military training, threatening those who did not comply with their orders with the possibility of death. The discovery was also reported of documents headed “methods of war" and declaring that members must not adopt the blood-thirstiness of the Black and Tans, but attack public services without causing loss of life. LONDON DISCOVERY CANISTER IN LETTER BOX Received Feb. 12, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 10. A ten-inch canister wrapped in paper bearing the letters I.R.A. was found in the letter-box at ths Charing Cross Labour Exchange in London. It is believed that it contained explosives which an attendant rendered harmless by plunging the canister into water.