UNION JACK BURNT.
DUBLIN STREET INCIDENT. (Received 12 noon.) LONDON. June 25. Throe hundred ]iolice prevented thousands of demonstrators making a pilgrimage to Wolfe Tone's grave at Bode nst own. Ireland, and an open-air protest meeting burned the Union Jack in a Dublin street.
Theobold Wolfe Tone, who lived from 1703-98. was an Irish lawyer and politician who became involved in political intrigue as secretary of the Catholic Committee. He is alleged to have given information about Ireland to France and urged a French invasion of Ireland.
He committed suicide while waiting execution for treason.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 148, 26 June 1939, Page 7
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