ARMS FOR REBELS.
SECRET IRISH ORGANISATION. LONDON. May IS. Tlip of n live organisation in England, controlled from Dublin, for the purpose of acquiring rifles, revolver* anviiunitioii, oud explosives for use by tlir rebels -igainst fie Irish Frw State was disclosed at the prosecution and trial of eleven Irishmen fit Birraiiieham churued with, acquiring such munitions. Tin- proceedings a~ose n« the result of police Invoetiarßtione alter a raid at Birmingham. The nvn were arrested severally at Birmingham, Coventry, Liverpool, Han ley, Batley. and .larrow. Documents discovered stuffed in the sofa r.f a house indicated that several parties i.f procurers were employed, for wlioio the arrested mc" were and that large consignments of arms and ammunition for Ireland had Upeii forwarded through then - -
Lists were cautured dttailine the sup--1 lies of macliiue guns, gelijrnite, and Mills bombs sent since November.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 120, 23 May 1922, Page 5
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139ARMS FOR REBELS. Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 120, 23 May 1922, Page 5
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