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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 5, 1940
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Blunt Speaking In Eire: Bad Discipline In The Army
FORMATION OF I.R.A. NATIONAL GOVT. URGED
Dublin, To-day.
"I am not surprised at the raid on the magazine in Phoenix Park; it is patent to anybody familiar with what is going on in the Army that things are bad," declared Professor Michael Tierney in the Eire Senate yesterday.
ROUND-UP
CONTINUES
Dublin, To-day.
It is now reported that over 20: men were arrested yesterday in Dublin and County Cork.
The arrests`are believed to be part of the general round-up of auspected members of the irish Republican Army.-Reuter.
"Discipline is undermined and there are irregulari-WOMAN WILL ties which would never be permitted in any of PAINT WAR dinary army," he added.
CO-
Professor Tierney urged the forma- and tion of a national government, said that unless the two principal par- arrange- ties in Eire came to some ment they would soon find the country had no use for either of them, or for parliamentary institutions in general,
Mulcahy urged Mr. Richard operation between the Governments of Eire, Great Britain and Ulster, so that | Eirann citizens would not be allowed to damage property or endanger lives in North Ireland or Britain, or endan~ Eire ger political relations between and Britain.
NEW BILL IN DAIL
While the Senate was sitting yes- terday the Dail considered another Bill which seeks to put into permanent form the legislation authorising the detention of persons suspected of ac- tivities against the State.
Two men and a girl who dare to fight and con- {"quer"the"ruthless ̋sea!~
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TODAY SUNDAY
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It is necessary for the Govern- ment to introduce this Bill in or- der to repeal the second part of the Offences Against the State Act, which Mr. Justice Duffy re- cently pronounced unconstitution- al.
Mr. Frank Aiken, the Minister of Defence, said:
AT FRONT
London, Dec. 16.
The first woman artist to be sent by the War Office to the Western Front is Miss Gwen le Gallienne—– daughter of the poet Richard le Gallienne.
and author,
Like other artists sent out by the "When small nations authorities, she will be salaried and are falling like ninepins all over the have status equivalent to that of a world, if this small nation is to sur-war correspondent. vive it must have discipline, and the Government must have the support of all good citizens in suppressing volutionary activities."---Reuter.
I found her yesterday, excited and pleased, in her studio near Charing re- Cross.
OVERWHELMING. DAIL MAJORITY
Dublin, To-day,
the
The Dail yesterday passed final stages of the Offences Against the State Bill by 62 to 7 votes.
Labour and one Independent voted against the measure, but the opposi- tion supported the Government.
The Premier, Mr. de Valera, in the course of the debate, said-that- carelessness in routine was res- ponsible for the magazine fort raid,
NEWSPAPERS BY AIR FOR LIGHTHOUSE
Lighthouse-keepers in storm-bound. and remote districts have to thank war conditions for regular deliveries by air of newspapers, magazines and books.
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On
The idea originated among Royal Air Force coastal command aircraft crews, who fly daily over the sea reconnaisance" Lighthouse keepers never fail to give the crews a cheery The wave as the aircraft fly over. airmen thought they would like leave behind something tangible to light- relieve the monotony of the housemen's vigil.
to
Before dropping his package of newspapers, the pilot flies low over his targets, with engine throttled back, while the navigator at the open win- dow with the gifts. When the pilot shouts "now" the navigator drops a package.
Sometimes the parcels slip off the precipitous rock into the sea, whence the lighthouse men fish them out. Usually however, there is sufficient flat ground at the base of the lighthouse to ensure a safe drop. One lighthouse- keeper has a minute garden on which. the pilhos take pride in scoring, a
direct hit”.
The lighthouse occupants acknow- TO SEE THE FIGHTING
ledge the gifts with excited waves, one "I began painting when I was quite of them during the last "paper raid”. young," she told me, "and did a num-on his post, ran out and spread on the ber of pictures before I began to take ground a sheet with the words:-"we lessons to find out what was wrong thank you RAF” with them. Now I've done still lifes and landscapes, but chiefly portraits. "In France I hope to go as close as possible to action in the front line. I want to be with the men, and see them at work. I want to write, too, about them from the woman's point of view".
Only one thing will be strange to her for her uniform will consist of regulation tunic and skirt.
SOVIET PLANS IN CHINA NOT KNOWN
Shanghai, To-day. The Norwegian Consul has denied knowledge of any intended re-es- tablishment of the Soviet Consulate in
"Skirts will be rather strange to | Shanghai. work in," she says, "for almost all my The Norwegian Consul has been in painting has been done in slacks, and charge of Soviet affairs since the So- if possible, an open-neck shirt. Weli, viet Consulate closed.-Our Own Cor-
respondent.
He remarked it would be serious if I think I'll get used to it.
the Act
was
unconstitutional. If
such were the case it would be neces- sary to change the Constitution. Reuter.
ALLEGED YOUTHFUL GANGSTERS
FATHER AND SON JAILED AS BOMBERS WORE SHAMROCK IN COURT
London, Dec. 16.
A 23-year-old Irishman, William Bradley, was said at Birmingham As- sizes yesterday to have been identified because a set of false teeth found in the street fitted him.
FIVE YOUNG GANGSTERS, BE- LIEVED TO HAVE BEEN OPERAT- ING UNDER INSTRUCTION IN THE YAUMATI - DISTRICT - FOR SOME
With Stanley Joseph Rice, aged 27, TIME, WERE CHARGED BY DET.- SGT. N. B. FRASER BEFORE MR. he was sentenced to 10 years' penal Q. A. A. MACFADYEN THIS MORN- | servitude for conspiring to cause an ING WITH SNATCHING HANDBAGS | explosion. Patrick M'Briñe, aged 57, |
Rice's father, was sentenced to 15 AND RECEIVING.
years.
Their last known victims were Mrs. La Combe and Miss Grancau, from whom they stole handbags,, contain- Ing U.S.$85 and H.K.$345 and HK$11 respectively, in Nathan Road on New Year's Eve.
They were arrested, It was stated, in a house in Temple Street, alleged to be their headquarters, when divid- ing the spoils.
All three wore shamrock sprigs in their buttonholes and refused to plead.
Mr. Richard O'Sullivan, K. Č., pro- secuting, sald after letter-box fires in Birmingham a letter containing ex- plosive material was found in the street, addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty in the handwriting of
"A remand for further investigations | M'Brine. was ordered.
wo cases
on, were
smallpox, both in
the
Then
HANDS BURNED.
with one of his hands badly burned. Rice and Bradley were found guilty of possessing explosives, causing an explosion, and conspiracy to cause an explosion and M'Brine guilty of con- spiracy and not guilty of the other two charges.
Inspector Mackenzie said that M'Brine had been a member of the I.R.A. for many years, and in 1920. was responsible for serious crimes in Northern Ireland... He was interned for two years and released when he en- tered into a recognisance.
· BROTHERS EXPELLED Bradley was one of a well-kno family of L.R.A. members. Two of his brothers had been expelled from Bir- mingham, and he came to take their place.
"Rice had been under the Influence of his father, who, there was no doubt, had
active part
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