ARMED RAIDS IN CORK
OUTCOME OF A CONSPIRACY MR COSGRAVE WARNS PARLIAMENT SEEKS DRASSIC POWERS By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Australian anti N.Z. Cable Association. (Received November 17, 7.55 p.m.) LONDON, November 17. “There is no doubt that a conspiracy has been formed to subvert order in the Free
State,” said Mr \V. T. Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council, in introducing a Bill -in the Dail Eireann to give the Government drastic powers. H e declared is was evident that there >s some centre from which instructions were issued to carry out raids o n the day when telegraph wires were cut and
trees were felled to block roads. The conspiracy must be countered without delay. A sensational series of raids occur-
red in Cork last week-end. Armed men overpowered the Civic Guards and ransacked the police station* iemoving bundles of documents tnd shooting dead a sergeant named Fitzsimmons. He was in charge of St. Luke’s Barracks, and was standing in a, doorway. Simultaneously there were raids on other barracks. .The raiders, after removing bundles of documents, escaped. Great military activity in Cork followed the raids, and 25 persons were arrested.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12607, 18 November 1926, Page 7
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190ARMED RAIDS IN CORK New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12607, 18 November 1926, Page 7
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