Irish Border Ambush
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) BELFAST, July 4. A special police constable was killed and another wounded when a mobile patrol in South Armagh was machine-gunned early today near the Irish Republic border. Police -said the patrol immediately engaged the raiders, but they escaped into the Republic. The ambush occurred only a few days before Northern Ireland’s annual Irish Border Loyalists’ demonstration and is regarded by police- as a serious provocation.
Last night a bomb destroyed a police training hut at Derhawilt, County Fermanagh. Similar bomb outrages in recent months have been -traced to members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28321, 5 July 1957, Page 12
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