IRA INTELLIGENCE
`At about 2.10 a.m. today a number of Irishmen with loaded weapons visited No. 5 Training Battalion, REME. . . Southern Command HQ.
`The gang—it is thought to consist of eight men . . Sunday Express.
. . Sixteen men, disguised as soldiers.'—Sunday Pictorial. `Why were twenty armed IRA men able to raid an Army camp and escape? . . .'—Empire News.
`No one knows in Dublin who runs the IRA: who is in it. No one wants to know.'—Daily Express.
`We know who are the men behind the IRA . . . details of their spies and beautiful girl couriers.'—Empire News.
`The known facts are these: first-line strength of two bri- gades, approximately 8,000 men.'—News Chronicle.
`What is the strength of the IRA in Ireland today? The figure of 3,000 is not exaggerated.'—Empire News.
`There will be no IRA terrorist tactics in Britain.'—Htigh Delargy, MP., `England must expect attacks.'—Northern Ireland Minister of Home Affairs.
TAILPIECE
`True to tradition, the British Army stages a come-back after a first-round defeat. After the humiliating debacle of Arborlield comes the ictory at Rhyl.'—Evening Standard.
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