IRISH REPUBLICANS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21360, 13 June 1931, Page 11

IRISH REPUBLICANS

HEADQUARTERS RAIDED IN MOUNTAIN RECESSES (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, June 11. The Daily Telegraph’s Dublin correspondent reports that Civil Guards raided the Republican headquarters in the recesses of the Dublin Mountains. In addition to documents revealing a militant and treasonable organisation, the guards found 100,000 rounds of ammunition, a number of Lewis guns, rifles, and automatic pistols. The whole dump was guarded by a trap mine, which would have exploded at the slightest touch. The entrance to the stronghold was concealed by climbing plants. It included a chamber of concrete 20 feet square, where there were stores of food, and the stolen head of King Williams’s statue, once on College Green, Dublin, which was destroyed by explosives some years ago. A large quantity of high explosive near the dump was destroyed before the Civil Guards were able to enter the stronghold. The explosion was heard in Dublin seven miles away. Detectives had been seeking for the dump for many months, believing that a conspiracy was on foot to upset the State by force, as the Minister of Justice recently told the Dail.