OUTRAGE IN ULSTER
EXPLOSION OF LANDMINES CUSTOMS HUTS DESTROYED IRISH REPUBLICANS BLAMED BELFAST, Nov. 30 Several Customs huts on the Northern Ireland side of the Eire border were wrecked by landmines last night, including those at Newtown Butler, from which anti-partition meetings have been banned. The Irish Republican Army is believed to have been responsible for the blowing up of the Customs posts, says the Independent Cable Service. The attacks were carefully planned, the oxplosions occurring almost simultaneously at five key posts along a 180mile border line.
A suitcase containing an unexploded bomb was found at Tullydonnel, a Customs post near Antrim. The police discovered similar suitcases addressed to local residents left overnight at the destroyed posts. It is now known that they contained time bombs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23210, 2 December 1938, Page 11
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