STATUES BLOWN UP IN DUBLIN
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Loud Cheers When Union Jack Is Burnt ANTI-BRITISH FEELING
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(Received 14, 8.45 a.m.) DUBLIN, May 13. The Chief Coronation excitement was the blowing up of the equestrian statue of King George II. on St. Stephen's Green; also the statue of William III. on College green. High explosive was used, and the first statue was badly damaged. Loud cheers greeted the burning of the Union Jack. There was a meeting of ex-xnembers of the Irish Eepublican Army1, 400 of whom formed a procession which passed 'through the streets, demanding complete independence and cutting telephone and telegraph wires, which isolated Londonderry. On Coronation morning the Wires crossihg the border to Ulster near Strabane were also cut. Nevertheless, a Free State band and Boy Scouts 'carrying the Union Jack parbicipated in the Strabane celebrations. The windows in buildings near the george II. statue were shattered, but fortunately no-one was injured. Police "Fiying Squads" rushed up and found a dump of guns and ammunfEion. They are at preseht conducting an intensive search of the neighbourhood.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 100, 14 May 1937, Page 5
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