AMAZING OUTRAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 243, 14 October 1929, Page 7

AMAZING OUTRAGE.

Irish Girls Attacked By Armed Men. CLOTHES SET ON FIRE. LONDON, October 13. A party of 24 Derry colleens, who were returning to Londonderry after a dance at Fort Leenan, were the victims of an astonishing outrage at the hands of fourteen armed masked men near Clonmany. The girls had been guests of the Royal Artillery at Fort Leenan, and their hosts had provided a motor omnibus to take them home in the email hours of the morning. Masked men stopped the omnibus on the journey, and, at the point of the revolver, forced the girls to submit to be driven to the lonely Lsle of Doagli, which is notorious as the haunt of potheen makers. Here the girls were compelled to take off their shoes, stockings and ball dree sec, which were gathered in a heap, on which petrol was poured and set ablaze. The girls and their soldier driver were then lined up and told that they would be shot, but the masked men finally turned the girls adrift on the lonely countryside, to'find their way to Londonderry, shoeless, stockinglese and coatlese.