GANG ATTACK
ON BRITISH MILITARY POST SAPPER SENTRY SURPRISED. RAIDERS GET AWAY WITH ONE RIFLE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, June 26. The “Daily Mail” says that five men, believed to be Irish Republicans, drove up in a car, left one of their number on watch, overpowered a sentry at Fort Southwick, the headquarters of a Royal Engineers survey company, near Portsmouth. and carried him to the guardroom, where they held him down. They wrenched the telephone from its fit tings, but decamped on hearing the approach of other sappers, who were attracted by the noise. One rifle is reported to be missing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1939, Page 6
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108GANG ATTACK Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1939, Page 6
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