SCENES IN DUBLIN
PROCESSION TO MOUNTJOY GAOL DEMONSTRATION FOR HUNGER STRIKERS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright DUBLIN, September 22. (Received September 22, at 2.10 p.m.) There were exciting scenes in Dublin when a procession of 7,000 marched to Mountjoy Gaol, following an I.R.A. meeting to protest ag-ainst tho Government’s denial of “ political treatment ” to the hunger-striking Republicans who are undergoing sentences for raiding a public house against British beer. A small force of police was drawn up in the roadway. The police drew their batons, but they ■ failed to stop the crowd, which, with yells and cheers, rushed on until just outside the gaol, where they encountered another police cordon, which hurled back the demonstrators. Tho leader addressed the crowd from a lorry, saying: “ We have come not to make a row, but merely to give hope and courage to the hunger strikers,’’ after which the procession returned in an orderly manner.
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Evening Star, Issue 21523, 22 September 1933, Page 12
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150SCENES IN DUBLIN Evening Star, Issue 21523, 22 September 1933, Page 12
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