London, May 24.
Seventy-six members of the Irish Republican Army, terrorist Irish rebel organisation, were arrested in northern Ireland on Wednesday and Thursday night, the Police headquarters in Belfast announced officially this evening.
All the men now under lock and key will be held in internment "for the duration" as part of the large-scale precautions now taken by the British Government against the "fifth column" in the British Isles.
Another precaution, revealed by the London Regional Committee of the Communist party, is the cancellation by the Home Office of a demonstration scheduled to be held in Trafalgar Square, Sunday.
The Committee, the group added, had lodged a formal protest against this action.
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