BOMBS MAR PEACE DAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 509, 12 November 1928, Page 1

BOMBS MAR PEACE DAY

Dublin Awakened at Dawn

KINGS’ STATUES BLOWN UP

Unseemly Scuffles in Procession

(United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and 27. Z. Press Association) Received 10.45 a.ra. LONDON, Sunday. nOMB explosions before dawn awoke Dublin to the fact that Armistice Day had arrived, and that there still was a dangerous section of extremist Republicans abroad.

During the night explosives were placed at the base of the King William equestrian monument on College Green. The explosion damaged the pedestal and the bronze horse, and shattered the windows of banks and offices in the vicinity. Almost simultaneously a bomb exploded at the base off the bronze statue of George the Second on St. Stephen’s Green, damaging the stonework. Both explosions were heard for miles. The police were rushed to the vicinity. No arrests have been made, but there were fears that further outrages would interfere with the processions.

Nevertheless, thousands of bemedalled and poppied ex-servicemen, accompanied by black-shirted British Fascisti, and women relatives of the fallen, despite pelting rain, marched to the Cenotaph at Phoenix Park, which Deputy Shaw wreathed on behalf of the Free State. The crowd, after observing the silence, sang “God Save the King.” The return march, was marred by several scuffles, youths attempting to break the procession’s ranks and seize the Union Jacks. They were roughly handled and were rescued with difficulty by the civic guard. Excited crowds thronged the principal streets in expectation of further disturbances.