RAID BY I.R.A. MEN
SEIZURE OF RIFLES POLICE CHECK RIOTING GESTURE TO KILLERS ißecd. Feb. 12, 2.30 p.m.) BELFAST, Feb. 11. A party of Irish Republican Army supporters with a car raided a depot at Kallykinlar. They overpowered the sentry and seized 30 rifles. Police had to resort to baton charges for two hours to suppress demonstrations by supporters of the Irish Republican Army in sympathy with the two terrorists who were executed at Birmingham for murder. The crowds fled and reassembled Men and women threw bottles, brick bats and paving stones. A youth hurled a huge stone into a car full of police and an inspector threatened to fire his revolver.
Several persons were arrested.
The police raided a club at Armagh and prevented the reading of sympathetic resolutions from a window. Some churchgoer-? wore crepe armlets.
Revolver shots were fired in the Ork barracks and wounded Eireann army sergeants, one critically. A private was arrested.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20170, 13 February 1940, Page 11
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