A TRAIN BOARDED
MAN SERIOUSLY WOUNDED,
LONDON, 7th April,
A hundred recruits going from Kerry to Dublin to enlist in the' Free State army were taken in custody .by a force of armed rebels at Mallow Station, County Cork. The rebels boarded the train and shot one recruit after he was taken prisoner, because he.shouted, "Up, the Free State." The recruit was taken to hospital seriously wounded. The captives were taken to Buttevant Barracks, tinder a strong escort. The casualties at Belfast include a nine-year-old boy. Armed women held up two trains in County Donegal and' seized and burned newspapers.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 83, 8 April 1922, Page 5
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100A TRAIN BOARDED Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 83, 8 April 1922, Page 5
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