OUTRAGE IN IRELAND

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21596, 14 September 1933, Page 9

OUTRAGE IN IRELAND

VICTIM OF ARMED MEN I ~ I DEGRADING TREATMENT PURVEYOR OF ENGLISH ALE 'unenviable experience E'y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 13, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 12 Twelve armed men raided an inn at Luean, a' few miles out of Dublin, broke a bottle of Bass' ale, took the licensee's brother in a lorry, blindfolded him, and drove to a lonely spot on Feathered Mountain. ( There the men stripped their captive and forced him to don a woman's undergarment, on which was printed "Boycott Bass." The victim had to walk five miles in bitterly cold weather toward Dublin before he received assistance. At one farmhouse the inmates refused him admittance, a woman saying: "You might be someone who would shoot us." TRADE WITH BRITAIN ,ALL-ROUND REDUCTIONS LABOUR BEHIND DE VALERA DUBLIN, Sept. 12 Mr. de Yalera has conferred with tho Labour Party and discussed tho speeding up of unemployment relief, housing and other legislation? They also discussed tho " most effective means of meeting the British attack on the economic life of the nation." It was afterwards announced that Laboured decidedHo continue to support the Government. An early electiomSjthercforo is unlikely. Tho Irish Free State's exports to Britain for the first eight months of 1932 and 1933 were as follow: 1932 1933 Cattle .. .. £5,367.000 £2,880.000 Swine . . . 784.000 144,000 Bacon < .. 420.000 308,000 Butter .. 978.000 906.000 Eggs . ! . . 1.482.000 873,000 Britain's exports to Ireland were similarly reduced. Following are examples: — 1932 1933 Coal . . £1,147,000 £565.000 Wheat, meal, flour 949,000 Suear . . . 464,000 47,000 Beer . !! ' 135,000 109,000 With the object of reducing British coal imports to the Irish Free State, the Government is planning to develop the Arigna mines on the borders of Roscommon and Leitrim. Lour French mining engineers are officially investigating the districts for mineral resources.