IN IRISH CEMETERIES
REBURIAL OF REBELS' BODIES
BEVOLVER SHOTS CAUSE PANIC.
(ONITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIGBT.)
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CUll ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 31st October.
There -were - wild scenes at the reburials of the bodies of the executed Irish rebels. Women, standing behind the civilian mourners when seventeen bodies were buried in the Glasnevin Cemetery at Dublin, handed each man a revolver to fire a volley. Troops lushed the graveside after the first shot, and the" crowd stampeded. Wreaths were trampled upon, some women fell into the grave, and others were injured.
The military intervened at the burial of six bodies at-' Dundalk, County Lbuth. A civilian fired a revolver and civilians and troops exchanged shote from behind headstones.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 107, 1 November 1924, Page 7
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115IN IRISH CEMETERIES Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 107, 1 November 1924, Page 7
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