RAID IN IRELAND
OF REPUBLIC STRONGHOLD. CIVIL GUARDS SUCCESS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 1.5 p.m.) LONDON June 11. The “Daily Telegraph’s'’ Dublin correspondent reports civil guards raided Republican headquarters in the recesses of a Dublin mountain, fu addition documents revealing a militant treasonable organisation the guards found one hundred thousand rounds of ammunition and a number of Lewis guns, rifles and automatic pistols. The whole dump was guarded by a trap mine, which would have exploded at the slightest touch. The entrance to the stronghold was concealed hv climbing plants. It included a twenty feet square chamber of concrete where stores of food, also the stolen head of King William statue once on College Green, Dublin which was destroyed by explosives some years ago.
A large quantity of high explosives near the dump was destroyed before the civic guards were able to enter the stronghold.
The explosion was heard at Dublin, seven miles away. The detectives have been seeking the dump for many months, believing a conspiracy was afoot to unset the State by force, as the Minister of Justice recently told the Dail
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1931, Page 5
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189RAID IN IRELAND Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1931, Page 5
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