AGRARIAN CRIME IN IRELAND.
MOUNTAIN SET ON FIRE.
FORCING LANDLORDS TO SELL. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. (Received May 22, 1.3 a.m.) London, May 21. A fire is raging over a front of four miles on the side of Slieve Anierin Mountain in County Leitrim, Ireland. The growth on the mountain has been set afire by the tenant farmers of the district with the object of destroying all the young game. The tenants have threatened not to allow the landlords to shoot on the mountain because < they have refused to subdivide and sell their estates. ■ -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13494, 22 May 1907, Page 7
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93AGRARIAN CRIME IN IRELAND. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13494, 22 May 1907, Page 7
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