BORDER OUTRAGE
CUSTOMS HUTS DESTROYED NORTHERN SIDE OF EIRE BOUNDARY Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 30. Several Customs huts on the Northern Ireland side of the Eire border were wrecked by landmines last night. They included those at Newtown Butler, from which town anti-partition meetings were banned. ATTACKS CAREFULLY PLANNED LR.A. BELIEVED RESPONSIBLE. (Independent Cable Service.) BELFAST, November 30. (Received December 1, at 11 a.m.) The 1.1R.A. is believed responsible for blowing up the Customs posts. The attacks were carefully planned, and the explosions occurred almost simultaneously at five key posts along the 130-mile border line. A suit case containing an unexploded bomb was found at the Tullydonnell Customs post, Antrim. The police discovered similar suit cases addressed to local residents and left over night at the destroyed posts. It. .is now known that they contained time bombs.
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Evening Star, Issue 23129, 1 December 1938, Page 16
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139BORDER OUTRAGE Evening Star, Issue 23129, 1 December 1938, Page 16
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