MORE RAIDS BY I.R.A.
Battle With Police
(Rec. 11 p.m.) BELFAST, Dec. 18. Irish . Republican Army raiders were again active last night after several raids last week. A lorry load of I.R.A. men who stormed over the border from Eire, were involved in a gun duel near Nutfield Cross.
The police captured two of the raiders before their lorry raced back down the road towards the Irish Republic. Shortly after this fight, a bomb was thrown at the police station in Newtown Butler some miles to the south in County Fermanagh. The explosion at Newtown Butler, heard 12 miles away at Brookeborough, the town from which the Northern Ireland Prime Minister took his title.
Earlier raiders attacked a police patrol car in County Fermanagh. A police spokesman said that the attack took place a few miles from the Eire frontier.
The raiders struck as Lord Brookeborough was telling 10,000,000 television viewers the story of recent raids on the Eire-Ulster border.
Lord Brookeborough referred to the attack during a television appearance on a British Broadcasting Corporation programme in London. He said: “At this very moment as I speak to you they are attacking a police car near my home.”
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28155, 19 December 1956, Page 15
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