IN IRELAND
(B, Electric Telegraph—Co lynght.; SINN FEIN RAID. SECURES HALF A 'PON OF GELIGNITE. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 9. Masked, armed Sinn Feiners raided tho drifter Arklou and removed thirteen boxes containing half a ton of gelignite. The drifter had -loaded gelignite on Thursday at Kynoehs explosives factory which was recently closed in order to transport it elsewhere, but was compelled to return to port owing to stress of weather. Meantime the military guards were withdrawn*. The raiders took up positions on various\ parts of the quays while the party hoarded the drifter from a small boat, surprising and binding the watchman. " The raiders were well acquainted with ex. plosives, and selected only the finished product. The police and military have not sucecded in tracing the gelignite.
TRANSPORTING PRISONERS. (Received This Day at 9.25 a.m.l LONDON, Feb. -9. Seventy Sinn Feiners were arrested and removed from Cork gaol under strong military guard, including armour ed cars, and placed on war vessels at Queenstown and taken to an English port. Aeroplanes circled overhead until the vessels were at sea.
A SERIOUS OUTRAGE, j LONDON, Feb. 10. i Two hundred armed men captured
,Castle Martyr, police barracks in Comity Cork. Many casualties arc report-
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1920, Page 3
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