DRAMATIC RAID.
POLICE SURPRISE SINN FEINERS, “A VERITABLE ARSENAL’ By Telegraph.—Preu Aun.—Copyright. Received Dec. 26, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 24. The police made a dramatic raid on the parochial hall in a Tollcross coalmining town near Glasgow and arrested, thirteen members of a Sinn Fein organisation and captured large quantities of arms and ammunition. The police, fully armed, surrounded the building and overcame the two outer guards. The inner guards turned ;the lights out, but surrendered when faced with a row of revolvers and electric torches. The inner room was found to be a veritable arsenal, containing rifles, bayonets, bombs, detonators, fuses and sticks of gelignite. Nine armed men in the room were completely surprised. Some were packing cases and could not offer much resistance, so were quickly overcome. Men concealed by a garden hedge shot dead Armstrong, a weil-known Belfast Freemason, and Orangeman, who had been threatened and fired at earlier in the week. A party of armed men held up a mail train at WaterfaM station, on the CorkBandon railway, and extract,ed all registered letters and packets from the mail' bags. Cable Assn.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19211227.2.49
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1921, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
185DRAMATIC RAID. Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1921, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in