EXCITING SCENES.
PROTESTS IN IRELAND. Received September 22, 2.10 p.m. DUBLIN, Sept. 21. There were exciting scenes in Dublin when a procession of 7000 marched to the Mountjoy Gaol following an I.R.A. meeting of protest against tho Government’s denial of political treatment to hunger-striking Republicans undergoing sentences for raiding a public bouse against British beer. A small force of police drawn up in. the roadway drew their batons, but failed to stop the crowd, which, with yells and cheers, rushed on until they wero just outside the gaol, where they encountered another police cordon, which hurled back the demonstrators. The leader addressed the crowd from a lorry, saying: “We have come not to make, a row, but merely to give hope and courage to the hunger-strikers,” after which the procession returned in an orderly manner.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 253, 22 September 1933, Page 2
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