MINES IN IRELAND
SEVERAL CUSTOMS HUTS WRECKED. ON ULSTER SIDE OF BORDER. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, November 30. Several Customs huts on the Northern Ireland side of the Eire border were wrecked by landmines last night. They included those in Newtown and Butler, from which town anti-partition meetings were banned. PLANNED ATTACKS BOMBS IN SUITCASES. IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY ACCUSED. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) BELFAST, November 30. Members of the Irish Republican Army are believed to have been responsible for the blowing up of Customs posts. The attacks were carefully planned and explosions occurred almost simultaneously at five key posts along a 180 miles border line. A suitcase, containing an unexploded bomb, was found at the Tullydonnel Customs post. The Antrim police discovered that similar suitcases, addressed to local residents, had been left overnight at the destroyed posts. It is now known that they contained time bombs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1938, Page 7
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150MINES IN IRELAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1938, Page 7
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