MINES EXPLODED
WRECKING OF CUSTOMS HUTS.
WORTH OF IRELAND FRONTIER.
REPUBLICAN AR3KY BLAMED. (United Press Association —Copyright.) LONDON. November 30. Several customs huts on the Northern Ireland side of the Eire border were wrecked by land-mines last night. They included those at Newtown Butler, from which town anti-partition meetings were banned.
FIVE SIMULTANEOUS OUTRAGES TIME BOMBS IN SUITCASES. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) BELFAST, November 30. ' Members of the Irish Republican Army are believed to have .been responsible for blowing up the customs posts. The attacks were carefully planned and explosions occurred almost simultaneously at five key posts along the 180-mile border line. A suitcase containing an unexploded bomb was found at the Tullydonnel customs post, Antrim. The police discovered that similar suitcases, addressed to local residents, were left overnight in the destroyed posts. It is now known they contained time bombs.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 44, 1 December 1938, Page 5
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