IRELAND'S CHRISTMAS.
j COMPARATIVELY TRANQUIL. j RAID ON NEWSPAPER OFFICE. I j i I I SOME SHOOTING IN DUBLIN. . By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received 12.5 a.m.) 1 A. and N.Z. LONDON, Dec. 27. Thirty armed and masked raiders in- ; vaded the offices of the Cork Examiner ' ;on Christmas Eve. They broke the I machinery with hammers, wrecked parts I of the building with explosives, and set ' i tire to the property. They escaped oefore ■ 1 the arrival of the police. The fire was ! extinguished, but other damage was extensive. The raiders, who were i n civilian clothes, >aid " that they were acting i under orders of the Irish Republic." It is I ! believed that the attack was caused bv i I the newspaper's attitude to the recent | ■ pastoral letter of the Bishop of Cork, con- ; demniiig ambushes. j 'I he Irish Office announces that a group lof Sinn Feiners in Dublin tired on a group of unarmed military, wounding one. Excepting a few incident* of rowdyism • Christmas passed quietly throughout Ireland, j ________ ____________
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17664, 28 December 1920, Page 5
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171IRELAND'S CHRISTMAS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17664, 28 December 1920, Page 5
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