AN ALLEGATION DENIED
PROTESTANTS THREATENED.
fil CABLE—PfiESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT N LONDON, Oct. 31. Mr. A- W. Cope denies the Morning Post's story. He admits iie left thej Civil Service and attached himself to I Mr. Lloyd George at a salary not exceeding what he drew in the service. There was no undertaking that he would be given any honour or seat in Parliament. Armed mien forced .three Protestant farmers in the Athlone district to leave! their homes with their famiUes, and! each was threatened that if he did not' go in a specified time he would be shot, .j The gunmen said the farmers were1 Cromwellian planters, and their hold-' ings belonged to the gunmen, having been held by their, ancestors: Similar outrages occurred at Roscommon and Galway. i
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 2 November 1922, Page 5
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128AN ALLEGATION DENIED Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 2 November 1922, Page 5
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