AMAZING IRISH OUTRAGE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 793, 14 October 1929, Page 9

AMAZING IRISH OUTRAGE

GIRLS WAYLAID AFTER ARMY DANCE BONFIRE OF CLOTHING United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Press Association Kecd. 3.14 p.m. LONDON, Friday. Twenty-four pretty Derry colleens, returning to Londonderry after a dance at Fort Leenan, were the victims of an astonishing outrage at the hands of 14 armed and masked men near Clonmany. The girls had been the guests of the Royal Artillery at Fort Leenan. Their hosts provided a motor omnibus to take them home in the small hours of the morning. The masked men stopped the omnibus at the middle of the journey at the point of the revolver and forced the girls to submit to be driven to the lonely isle of Doagh, which is a notorious haunt of potheenmakers. Here the girls were compelled to take off their shoes, stockings and hall-dresses, which were gathered in a heap. Petrol vias phured on the garments and they were set ablaze. The girls and the soldier who was driving the bus were then lined up and told to he shot; but the masked men finally turned the girls adrift on the lonely counHyside to find their way to Londonderry, shoeless, stockingless, and coatless.