Dublin, Mar, 2.
Moving the second reading of the Offences Against the. State Bill, designed to deal with the Irish Republican Army, in the Dail today, ['Mr. P. J. Ruttledge, the Minister of Justice, said that it was well-known that the Irish Republican Army possessed arms, were trained to the use of arms, and "got money from an outside country."
The country, he declared, was now quiet, but in view of past history, and certain evidence which "it might not remain While the Government did not fear that force, they wanted to deal with it, and, should the necessity arise, they would permit nobody to use force to secure political or social aims.
The Bill is aimed at preventing the country from drifting into civil war.—Reuter.
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