IRISH TERRORISTS

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20728, 11 February 1939, Page 7

IRISH TERRORISTS

MORE REVELATIONS I. R. A. BATTALION ORDERS DEATH FOR DISOBEDIENCE (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Feb. 11. 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 10 When the nine accused, Charles James Casey, George Brandon Kane. Daniel Fitzpatrick, Jack Logue, Francis James Burns, John Francis Wharton and John Healy and the two sisters Mary and Nora Glen, with John Gavahan, charged with conspiracy at Manchester, the prosecution alleged that all were members of the Irish Republican Army. The prosecution referred to the abortive explosions, and produced copies of the Irish Republican Army proclamation map of Manchester on which police stations, power stations, barracks and railway stations were marked. 'Certain of the accused were found to be in possession of documents headed “Battalion Orders,” declaring that the conventions, by a two-thirds majority, had resolved the time was ripe to attack England. General headquarters in Dublin ordered all units in Britain to begin special military training, threatening non-compliance with orders with the possibility of death. The discovery was also reported of documents headed “Methods of War," declaring that members must no! adopt the Black and Tans’ “bloodthirstiness” but attack the public services without causing loss of life. A ten-inch canister wrapped in paper bearing the letters *I.R.A. was found in a letterbox at the Charing Cross Labour Exchange, London. Jt was believed to contain explosive, which the attendant rendered harmless by plunging It in water.