TRIBUTES TO REPUBLICANS
Crowd of 1000 Meet in Memory of Pearce and Connolly DILIGENT POLICE PATROLS 1 PARADES AT CEMETERIES ! (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright). Received 2.30 p.m to-day. DUBLIN, April 21. A crowd of 1000 marched in heavy rain to the Navan cemetery, where a, band played the Dead March and a crowd recited the .Rosary in Irish, a member of .the Republican Army read a message from the'Army and a barrister extolled Pearce and Connolly. Trumpeters sound the Last Post. When the police advanced to atop them, a party hoisting .Republican flags at Aughagallon, on the- shore of Lough Neagh,. fired. • The police returned the -shots' and the men scattered. Three were' subsequently arrested. Nobody was wounded.---The police diligently patrolled I Northern Ireland to prevent demonstrations, but 500 men met at a cemetery at, Stewartstown in the absence of the police.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 April 1935, Page 8
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