DE VALERA ARRESTED

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 4, 28 October 1924, Page 5

DE VALERA ARRESTED

deportation from ulster.

ESCORTED TO THE FRONTIER.

Press Association—Copyright, Australian ami N.Z. Cable Association, LON DON, Oct. 25.

The Republican leader, De Valera, was arrested in the vestibule of the Town Hall at Newry, Ulster, in the act of entering to speak in support of the Republican candidate and in defiance of the Ulster authorities.

The arrest was the sequel to a daylong watch by contingents of constabulary armed with revolvers, rifles, bayonets and truncheons, guarding every possible approach to the town in view of De Valera’s announced intention of speaking. De Valera spent the night under guard in the Newry police barracks. He was escorted to the frontier this morning, released and given a railway ticket to Dublin. There was no demonstration.

RE-ARRESTED AT LONDONDERRY.

VIOLATION OF NOTICE.

(Received 8.45 a.ra.) (Reuter.) London, October 27

De Valera was arrested at Londonderry when entering St. Colomb’s Hall to address a meeting in violation of the notice served on him last week not to enter the northern area.

Over two hundred an ( { fifty police were present in and around the hall to effect the arrest.