Blodshed in Ireland.
NATIONALIST CUN-RUNNINC.
POLICE AND SOLDIERY TAKE PART.
THREE KILLED AND FORTY WOUNDED.
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press .Association.] (Received 1.55 p.m.)
London, July 2(5
On Sunday morning a yacht landed 2500 rifles and 170,000 rounds of ammunition at Howth, Nationalist volunteers meanwhile cutting the telegraph wires and stopping conummication with Dublin. A motor car was used to convey the arms to the interior.
The police and Scottish Borderers went to Howth in the afternoon and seized a hundred rifles and returned to Dublin.
A crowd of youths followed, storing and booing the troops and cheering Redmond.
The troops fired several volleys and killed three and wounded forty, some mortally. The wounded included women and children.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 27 July 1914, Page 6
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118Blodshed in Ireland. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 27 July 1914, Page 6
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