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HE VALERA ARRESTEE. SEQUEL TO ALL-DAY WATCH. A NIGHT UNDER GUARD. BY CABLE—PEES? ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Ocfc. 25. The Republican leader, De Valera, ivas arrested iu the vestibule of the Town Hall at Nejvry, Ulster, in the act of entering to speak in support of the Republican candidate and in defiance of the Ulster authorities. The arrest was the sequel to a daylong watch by contingents of constabulary armed with revolvers, rifles, bayonets and truncheons, guarding every possible approach to the town m view of De Valera’s announced intention of speaking. Dp Valera spent the night under guard in the Newry police barracks. He was escorted to the frontier this morning, released and given a railway ticket to Dublin. There was no demonstration.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 October 1924, Page 5
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125IRISH SENSATION Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 October 1924, Page 5
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