TO BLOW UP A MEMORIAL
WREATHS TO WAR HEROES BURNED Cork. Aa attempt was .made here at 9 oTlioek at ).iight to blow up the monument a Gillabbev Rock, erected to the memory of oilicers and men who nere killed in the Boer war. Wreaths which had been placed oil the memorial Here first burned • by the would-be wreckers. Gelignite was used, and a terrific exjilosinii. startled the neighbourhood, but little niaterial damage was done. This iff the second attempt to destroy the monument, A similar explosion occurred on it five years ago.
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Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 553, 30 December 1925, Page 6
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