SINN FEIN IN IRELAND
TROUBLE WITH AMERICAN DELEGATION .BAYONETS USED,, C) By Telegraph-Press Association- Oopyrlfhl London, Hay 12 (delayed). \ The' American delegation in .Ireland, accompanied by a priest and ' several Sinn Fein members of , the'-House- of Commons, attempted to enter''the Westport area (County Mayo), which is uuder military control. Armoured cars held tho road and stopped the '.delegation. .Subsequently . a large crowd, which marched to the barrier carrying the / Tricolour and the Stars and Stripes, was ■■ dispersed at the- point of tho ■.bayonet.. A hundred disguised men arrived in ten motor-cars and on cycles at the late General Nugeufs castle, at Arlingford Lough. They ransacked tho castle and, secured three 6hotguns and five rifles. \ The raiders hoped to find arms belonging) to a battalion of Ulster volunteers, but j: they had'already been removed— N.Z. Cable Assn. . _,
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 202, 21 May 1919, Page 7
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136SINN FEIN IN IRELAND Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 202, 21 May 1919, Page 7
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