London, July 24. pes of irish Republican Army terrorist activities were of Commons today in moving the second reading of the Prevention given by Sir Samuel Hoare, $ the Home Secretary, in the House of Violence Bill, which was passed by 218 votes to 17. Sir Samuel revealed that the police had seized 1,500 sticks of gelignite, 1,000 detonators, potassium chlorate and oxide iron, seven gallons of sulphuric acid, and four hundredweight of aluminium powder—enough to cause millions of pounds worth of damage RE la and, what was even more important, the loss of at least 1,000 men and women.
The fact that more lives had not been lost, the Home Secretary said, was due to Providence and the courageous. action of the police. Time after time, he declared, the police had been baulked by the absence of power to search and control suspects whom they were convinced were terrorist leaders. He added that he had reliable information that the LR.A. campaign was being Mosely "watched and actively stimulated by foreign organizations. "Nothing is less likely than these outrages," continued Sir Samuel, "to bring about a reconciliation, without which a united Ireland is impossible. Since January there have been 127 outrages, of which 57 were in London and 70 in the provinces." kl The mentioned the preparation of a plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament, and quoted from a notorious plan which aimed at organized terrorism from general headquarters, particularly against public services.
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