The Archive · 1939

Police Follow Courier

London, July 9, Important documents concerning the plan of campaign of the Irish extremists in England have fallen into the hands of the police here, according to the "Evening Standard" yesterday which states that a man from Dublin, whose name and address were known to the police, had been watched for the past fortnight, The individual in question who served as a courier óf the Irish Republican Army, was followed tu Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and London but succeeded in escaping arrest. It was surmised that he had returned to Ireland.

In one of the lodgings occupied by him, detectives discovered however various documents -including two new plans of bomb outrages in London and the, provinces. The "Evening Standard" says that these documents have been communicated to the Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare.—Trans-Ocean.

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