AN IRISH TRAGEDY
BODIES OF MISSING OFFICERS
FOUND
VICTIMS OF IRREGULARS.
(nmitD Fitiai asjociatioh. copiriohi.) (ADSIBAUAN-NgW SSBALAND UABLI ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 12th December. The 'Morning Post's" Dublin correspondent says the mystery of the three British officers kidnapped at Macroom in May of kst year has been cleared up by a discovery a fortnight ago. It has been ]ust revealed that their bodies were found in a pit in County Cork, and it has been mysteriously disclosed that they were captured by irregulars, courtmartialled, and shot. The ' bodies are being brought to Aldershot for a military funeral.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1923, Page 7
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95AN IRISH TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1923, Page 7
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