A GALLANT STAND.
BY AN AMMUNITION CONVOY
LONDON, May 5. The correspondent at Dublin of the "Times'" states that one incident mentioned in General Maxwell's dispatch occurred in a narrow street near the Four Courts. Before the rebels opened hostilities a handful of men were told off to convoy five ammunition waggons from the North Wall railway station to the barracks at the other end of the city. In Charles street the rebels fiercely attacked them without warning. Five carmen coolly turned the waggons across the road and unharnessed the horses, while the escort poured volleys into the rebels' ranks. The waggons formed a miniature laager, where" the gallant little party of Lancers held their ground against a continuous fusillade from the street corners and the surrounding houses. , Three officers were hit, but the men held on till reinforcements drov e off the rebels on Thursday night. ' The carmen displayed -wonderful courage and devotion in creeping through the rebels' lines at night tim 3 and returning with food.
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Northern Advocate, 8 May 1916, Page 3
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168A GALLANT STAND. Northern Advocate, 8 May 1916, Page 3
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