IRELAND.
SINN FEINER’S EXECUTED. MOURNING IN DUBLIN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, March 14. Business in Dublin is at a standstill and the city in mourning for the six executed Sinn Feiners. Thousands of people knelt outside Mountjoy prison* praying during the time occupied by the executions. Dulring the executions armored car was stationed outside Mountjoy prison, and an aeroplane hovered overhead from dawn. The condemned men walked to the scaffold unaided. A notice was subsequently posted outside the gaol stating that the executions had been duly carried out. There was profound silence among the crowd for several minutes afterwards. r ATTACK ON A TRAIN. London, March 14. Sinn Feiners attacked a train at Ardfert station, which was conveying a party of auxiliaries. The driver was wounded in the head, and an auxiliary named Falkiner shot dead. The driver was then ordered to start and finish the journey to TfStee at high speed. The driver collapsed on reaching Tralee. Many of the passengers had remarkable escapes.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1921, Page 5
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165IRELAND. Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1921, Page 5
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