LORRIES HELD UP
FARMERS THROW THEMSELVES ON ROAD TITHE DISPUTE IN IRELAND Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright DUBLIN, September 6. (Received September 7, at 1.50 p.m.) After a truce duo to a local 'cricket match the tithe dispute at Ashford iu an extraordinary _ way_ renewed itself. Farmers and their wives and daughters prostrated themselves before lorries conveying oats seized for tithes. Appeals, screams, shouts by civilians and police increased the turmoil. The lorry drivers entered a potato field iu order to avoid the prostrate farm folk, who then wildly pursued the lorries, which were forced to stop until the police removed a heavy wagon impeding their exit from the field, allowing the lorries to depart.
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Evening Star, Issue 21819, 7 September 1934, Page 7
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114LORRIES HELD UP Evening Star, Issue 21819, 7 September 1934, Page 7
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