BIG COUP AT CORK.
WHILE POLICE FORCE SLEPT
(Received 8 a.m.)
LONDON, Dec. 20. Two hundred Sinn Feiners raidel the Cork railway station. Suddenly a whistle was blown, and the port«TS, signalman, drivers, and clerks w<re surrounded by masked men, who covered them with revolv-
ers. ThP whole staff was locked up and an armed guard placed over them while Sinn Feiners looted all the firoarms in the stores there.
The police barracks are in the vicinity, and there hundreds of police were asleep. Non e of them heard of the outrage till three hours afterwards, when a second whistle was (blown and the masked men disappeared.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 22 December 1919, Page 5
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