FREE STATE RAIDERS
GOODS TRAIN HELD UP BARRELS OF BEER SMASHED. LONDON, September 14. The United Ireland Party will contest the local elections on November 14, The party demands that the Government pay county councils £1,000,000 from a central fund in order to relieve payment of agricultural rates because the economic war destroyed farmers’ incomes. Raiders held up a goods train at Dundalk, menacing the station staff with revolvers. They removed two barrels of beer, which they smashed with hammers. The raiders intended ,to destroy British beer, but one barrel was Irish beer.
The 1.R.A., ignoring Mr de Valera’s suggestion that the raids are merely playing into the hands of the British, is continuing a widespread campaign. After an orgy of bottle-smashing the publican is forced to sign a pledge that he will not sell British beer.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22060, 16 September 1933, Page 11
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137FREE STATE RAIDERS Otago Daily Times, Issue 22060, 16 September 1933, Page 11
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