Special Irish Republican Army Areas in England to Plan Outrages and Revolt London, Jan, 26.
J. J, O'Leary, the dockyard ship-Jwright wt Portsmouth and Cyril McGough, a civil servant in London, the former charged with communicating information about the Haslar Dockyard, the latter with receiving it, in connexion with an Irish Republican organization concerned with a plot to blow up warships, were remanded at Bow Street till to-morrow.
Travers Humphreys, pro-announced that during Hotham's evidence, k the evidence to be heard privately on the ground that its publication would prejudice the national safety. He stated that two letters had been found on McGough, One bore the stamp of the Irish Republican Army, No. 7 Area Britain, dated January 14,' headed "Intelligence Department," address~ ed "Intelligence Officer, Britain," and related to experiments in the Haslar Dock and aboard the war ship Monarch, It also contained statements relating to very important and very secret matters which ould be prejodicil to the national safety. other letter contained a similar communication from No. 1 tarea, Irish Republican Army, dated Sunvary 1
'The documents were found in O'Leary's room. in Portsmouth, counsel continued, showing' that O'Leary was the writer of the first letter, which he sent to McGough under cover, vid a woman living in London, who appeared to have acted as a sort of post-office for these peopl Rear Admiral Hotham, in. giving evidence, said that. the publication of the statement in a letter regard to a naval experimental tank Jat the Haslar Dock would prejudice the national safety.
Mr. Mark Payne, the superintendent of the Admiralty exporimental works at the Hasiay Dock, said the statements in the letter with regard to secret experiments made in 1924 were substantially accurate,
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