AMAZING HOLD-UP IN DUBLIN

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 120, 14 February 1920, Page 7

AMAZING HOLD-UP IN DUBLIN

MILITARY MOTOR STOPPED ARMED MEN BARRICADE A STREET (By Telegraph-Press Assoclation-Copyriirht (liec. February 14, 1.5 a.m.) London, February 12. Thore was on amazing hold-up of a military motor van in the heart- of Dublin by armed men. A handcart, on which was a long ladder,' was pulled across a street and formed an effective barricade. When twenty men produced revolvers, the two officers and nine unarmed soldiers who were riding on tho motor van obeyed tho command "Hands up," and alighted, while, the .raiders searched the van, apparently seeking for Mr. ; R.. C. Barton, a\Sinn Fein member of the House of Commons, who was undergoing trial by court-martial. Failing to find Barton, the raiders coolly walked away. In the meantime the tram and other traffic was held up, and the,crowds looked on with amusement. A pedestrian was wounded in the foot, by a revolver bullet.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. moroEence , POLICE BARRACKS RAIDED. February 14, 1.20 a.m.) London, February 12. > During the early hours of this mornins: there was an attack on tho police barracks in an'isolated village westward of Castletown Berehavon, in which a constable was killed -and another wounded. .A gable was blown out of the barracks. Details .are meagre. A gang of armed men raided a fanner's house near Roscnioon and compelled the farmer to swear lie would not permit his son to join the Dolice force.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.