Dublin, Dec. 25.
These circles stress that the police Mystery still surrounds the arrest refused to divulge the names of the of 34 leaders of the Irish Republican arrested men, although it was found Army at Belfast at dawn last out later that some of them were Thursday. youths connected with the Republican An official communique explained movement in Belfast. that the measure was taken follow-'The police are at present continuing ing the receipt of information by the their investigation and are looking Government alleging that the Irish for certain "conspirators" who fled Republican army were to make at-when they were informed of the tempts on the lives of political leaders police raids. in Belfast and destroy several build-Several public buildings, including ings during the Christmas and New the Town Hall and the Court of Year festivities.
Justice, are still being guarded Nationalist quarters assert that the heavily. The arrests caused con-so-called "discovery ofaplot" by the siderable emotion in Nationalist public Army is a mere excuse to justify the opinion, since only a short while ago mass imprisonment of high officials Public meetings by the group were of the Nationalist party. banned.—Havas. i Austria's post-war debt to the United States, constituted another indication of a firmer. polic:
President Roosevelt's statement that the United States would not tolerate foreign aggression against Canada, and the President's intervention in the October European crisis over Czechoslovakia. America's rejection of Germany's protest against the recent anti-Nazi speech delivered by the Secretary of Interior, Mr. Harold Ickes, all in conjunction with the Lima Declaration which included the main objectives of the American delegation to the Pan-American Conference, further indicated the trend in Washington.
The Government's record peacetime rearmament programme, including plans for the defence of ihe entire western hemisphere, while continuing pressure for payment of indemnity by the Mexican government for American oil lands recently confiscated in Mexico, and the extension of credits to China and renewal of the U.S-China exchange. agreement which was to have expired at the end of this year. culminated the strengthening of ties with Britain which led to the extension of trade treaties to include the United Kingdom.
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