ATTACK ON DUBLIN HOTEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17754, 13 April 1921, Page 7

ATTACK ON DUBLIN HOTEL.

POISON GAS BOMBS USED.

CADETS REPULSE ASSAILANTS

THREE CONSTABLES KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 7.30 p.m.} A. and N Z. LONDON, April 11. A large force of civilians made a sensational attack on the London and Northwestern Railway Hotel in Dublin, where numbers of auxiliary police are staying. After surrounding the building, they hurled Mills bombs, poison gas bombs, and bottles of petrol into the hotel precincts, and then used revolvers freely. The police returned the fire, and after a vigorous fusillade the attackers retired, leaving one dead .and two wpunded. A number of arrests were made. Some of the auxiliaries fought in pyjamas, and others in shirts and trousers only, and with bare feet, but they pluckily pressed the rebels, a party of whom covered the retreat of the main body by raising the drawbridge over an adjacent canal. A small party of rebels were surprised while blowing up bridges and trenching roads at County Tralee. One rebel was ktiled and another wounded. One R.I.C. Auxiliary was wounded. Constable Fluke was killed by a bomb and three other constables were wounded while returning from a Protestant' church in Creggan, Armagh. Noticing people crowding into a hotel they approached, whereupon a bomb was thrown and fire opened on them from the opposite side of the road. Constables Doolworth and Boynes were shot in the street at Kildorrery and died in a few hours.