BOMB WRECKS THEATRE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 124, 21 November 1925, Page 7

BOMB WRECKS THEATRE

SHOWING BRITISH FILM "YPRES" RAIDERS ESCAPE SHOOTING AT POLICE. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPSRIGHT.) (RENTER'S TEtEOUAM.) VUcceivcd 21st November, noon.) DUBLIN, 20th November. At 7 ./clock this morning a bomb completely wrecked the Masterpiece Cinema Theatre, where the British war film "Ypres" was showing. Two policemen wore shot endeavouring to frustrate the raiders, one seriously. The raiders arrived in a motor-car in the fog. Few people were astir. Thuy entered tho theatre and deposited the j bomb. j When the police intervened, the raiders abandoned the motor-car and tied, exchanging revolver shots. j The explosion was heard all over the ' city. Plate-glass in adjoining shop win- | (lows was shattered, and the street was j littered with drapery, woodwork, and glass. On the evening of 9th November >i gang of armed men entered the Masterpiece Theatre, Dublin, when the first performance of the British film "Ypres" was about to begin, and demanded that the film should not be shown. The manager refused. The men thereupon broke into the projection box, and after a struggle with the operator, seized the film. The intruders declared that "Ypres" was British propaganda, despite the fact that the theatre authorities pointed out the great part played by Irish soldiers in the war, which was clearly shown by. the film, the' outstanding hero being Sergeant John Moyne, V.C., of the Irish Guards. Another copy of "Ypres" was sent to Dublin. The same day a number of armed mon entered a Kingston cinema and seized the film of the Prince of Wales's tour.