TURMOIL IN IRELAND
. 4 DEMONSTRATION AGAINST LORD . FRENCH. London, July 4. After, interviewing and dining with Admiral Tupper at .Queenstown, Lord French returned to go on board tho destroyer Vampire. He was followed to the naval pier by large crowds, who shouted and hooted at him. He was protected by an armed guard—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DESTRUCTION OF PETROL. London, July i. Tho "Irish Times" describes how 5000 gallons of petrol intended for the military in Gnlway, and loaded in an ordinary goods train, was held up at Mullingar. Masked men ran tho wagons into a siding, and emptied the petrol on the ground. Tho newspaper asks why a valuable munition of war was sent without protection through a hostile region where guerillas were working with remarkable audacity and infinito resource, ond says that, obviously, tho British Army has not yet succeeded in accommodating itself to an unprecedented and bewildering state of affairs.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 241, 6 July 1920, Page 5
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