THEFT OF AMMUNITION
RAID ON PHOENIX, PARK MAGAZINE
ATTACKERS SURPRISE & DISARM GUARD. SEVEN MEN CHARGED IN DUBLIN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) DUBLIN. January 2. Seven men who appeared, strongly guarded, in the District Court, on charges of breaking into the Phoenix Park Magazine and stealing ammunition, were remanded. It was stated that a dozen soldiers occupied the fort behind iron-barred gates. The captain was absent when the bell rang at 8.45 p.m. and the. corporal who answered it was confronted by a cyclist, who presented a revolver and exclaimed: “Stick ’em up or I will blow out your brains!” A group of men rushed out of hiding, seized the corporal and marched him to the guardroom, collecting a passing private en route and confining them to the room. Other members of the guard were found sitting round a fire. The raiders, augmented by new arrivals, made the corporal disarm the magazine sentry. The captain was taken prisoner by the raiders immediately he returned. Lorries drove into the fort and were loaded with ammunition and rushed off. All telephone wires were cut.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1940, Page 6
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185THEFT OF AMMUNITION Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1940, Page 6
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