N Ireland Army looking for mass excuse

we Union leaders councilmen backs councilmen mass arrests his is the meaning of the Brit n army's 'get-tough' policy in Ulster as spelt out by its 'No retreat on 55s' OXFORD council workers are to send a telegram to Jack Jones, head of the Transport and General Workers' Union, demanding that there be no retreat on the 55s claim.

At a mass meeting in the town yesterday they votec unanimously to stay out on strike until their demands are met But at CORBY 170 men decided to return to work from today. They will be meeting the council for negotiations on The Scamp inquiry is likely to be published tomorrow, but the Scamp committee will not itself release its findings-they will remain the property of the National Joint Council for commanders.

The army in N Ireland is for the first time facing 'organized terrorism' Major-General Tony FarrarHockley, land forces commander, claimed yesterday. Major Peter Spurgeon, acting Commanding Officer of 41 Commando also told reporters:

"The British Army are some of the nicest guys you can meet and we will do our best cool the situation, but if people get vicious and tough with us we will get tough with them and be professional with it?

Ulster is to be subjected to the same vicious military repression as imposed by the army in Aden, Cyprus and throughout the colonial countries.

The army, according to Spurgeon, is 'not always going to wait and see whether objects being thrown at them go bang or not ... the situation could arise in which someone was in a crowd throwing stones and when someone else was throwing bombs, and he would face the risk of being shot'.

OMINOUS In an ominous statement Major Spurgeon made it clear that demonstrators are to be driven off the streets whatever the cost to life and limb. - 'There is no question any more of saying to them: "If you will go back, we will go Illusions back"

'When we are satisfied that they have gone and the situain Scamp then we will go home. normal, tion is reduced to inquiry Both Spurgeon and another officer claimed that clashes over the weekend were part of a 'Green IRA' plot, supposedly organized to 'take advantage' of last Thursday's shooting of a civilian by a THE SCAMP inquiry may marine ! tell the government that the DIRECTIONS offer to local authority worBoth alleged that 'men with kers is not good enough, a black berets' had been seen left-wing Labour MP told giving directions during council strikers in London clashes. yesterday. In the context of the intensifying bitterness of the fighting, such statements are sharp This would also apply to warning of mass arrests in the the government's offer of 37s very near future. to their own employees in the health service, Norman Atkinsold me ber fing Tattere the meeting at Tower Hill.

'Let us be under no illusions, he added, 'the Scamp inquiry is going to do something that no other inquiry has done before when It tells the government this.' Atkinson ended with • an appeal for TUC support and the intervention of its general secretary Victor Feather if the inquiry did not get, a return to work.