Stones and Bottles Greet Election Parade
1 , Received Tuesday, 10.30 p.m. - LON'DON, Feb. 8. .Bottles and stones were thrown at several bands which paraded while Sir Basil Brooke, Prinj.e Minister of Northern Ireland, was addressing an election meeting last night at St. Rabane, a few hundred yards from the Eire border. The Daily Mail's eorrespondent says they were thrown by a crowd of several hundred who had come over from the Eire side. One big drum was smashed. People leaving the meeting were also stoned and one woman was seriously injured.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19490209.2.8.3
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 9 February 1949, Page 3
Word Count
91Stones and Bottles Greet Election Parade Chronicle (Levin), 9 February 1949, Page 3
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in