OUTRAGE IN IRELAND.
24 GIRLS ILL-TREATED.
MASKED MEN'S ATTACK.
WEARING APPAREL BURNED,
Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received October 12, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 12. A party of 24 Dcrry colleens who were returning to Londonderry aftor a. dance at Fort.Leenan were the victims of an astonishing outrage at the hands of 14 armed and masked men near Clonmany.
The girls had been the guests of the Royal Artillery at the fort. Thoir hosts provided a motor-bus to take tliem home.
In the small hours of the morning tho masked men stopped the bus midway on its journey and at the point of tho revolver forced tho girls to submit to bo driven to the lonely Islo of Doagh, a notorious haunt of potheen makers.
Thero the girls were compelled to take off their shoes, stockings and ball dresses, which were gathered in a heap, saturated with petrol and set on fire. The girls and the soldier who had driven them from tho danco were then lined up and told they ware to bo shot. However, the masked men finally turned the girls adrift in the lonely country, They had to find their way to Londonderry minus shoes, stockings and coats.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20385, 14 October 1929, Page 11
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201OUTRAGE IN IRELAND. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20385, 14 October 1929, Page 11
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