IRELAND.
PLOT- TO ATTACK TRAIN. UPSET BY BRAVE WOMEN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Received March 31, 5.5 p.m. London, March 3U Six armed Sinn Feiners held up Mrs. Moore, keeper of the Croagh level crossing, just before the mail train was passing, hoping to ambush t’he train by setting the signals against it, and thus capture military mails. The woman, however, misled the Sinn Feiners regarding the signals, while her young daughter slipped out and opened the gates, lowering the signals, and the train passed safely through. The Sinn Feiners ran out and fired three ©hots, and later they threatened to shoot the mother and daughter.—Aue. and N.Z. Cable Assn.
FARMERS MURDERED. London, March 30. Rebels placed William Fleming, a .Protestant farmer, of Drumgad, Monaghan, and 'his son Robert against a wall and shot them. The son died instantly and the father Ister. The Flemings recently refused to give up arms to the Sinn Feiners.—A,us.-N.Z. Gable Assn. NAVAL PENSIONER MURDERED. London, March 30. Two men’ entered the 'home Denis Donovan, insurance agent and naval pensioner, at Bandon, and fired two shots, killing Donovan.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1921, Page 5
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