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REPRISALS ON THE PEOPLE. RAID ON RAILWAY GOODS. DUBLIN CURFEW EXTENDED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 23, 8.15 p.m. London, March 22. Auxiliary police held up people and bookmakers going to the Kells races (Westmeath) and compelled them to fill up trenches outside Mullingar. The work was arduous and unpleasant and the amateur fatigue parties made a poor show with picks and shovels. A large body of men entered the goods depot of the Great Southern and Western railway at Cork, covering the officials with revolvers. They forced them to surrender two loads of goods consigned to Cork barracks. The goods consisted mostly of clothing and red cross equipment. A farmer’s son, aged 15, walking with a'girl in the Nenagh district, ignored ithe Crown forces’ challenge to halt, was shot dead. The Curfew hour at Dublin has been fixed at six in the evening over the week-end covering Easter Monday, the fifth anniversary of the insurrection.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. POLICE AMBUSHED. SOME KILLED AND WOUNDED. Received March 23, 7.45 p.m. London, March 22. A police patrol at Dundrum was ambushed. Bombs were thrown from behind a wall, and two constables were wounded. The district inspector was hit by a bomb while leaving the barracks, but he was not injured. During an attack on loyalists in the Roaslea district, Gordon Nexon was shot deed. Three farm houses were burned and arms seized in various houses. A police party was ambushed at Keadew and two were killed.-—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1921, Page 5
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