DUBLIN EXCITEMENT

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 433, 14 May 1937, Page 5

DUBLIN EXCITEMENT

STATUE BLOWN UP BURNING OF UNION JACK Coronation Day Celebrations In Ireland Press Association —Copyright. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Dublin, May 13. The chief Coronation excitement at Dublin was 1 the blowing up of the equestrian statue of George 11. at St. Stephen’s Green, also the sitatue of William 11. at College Green. High explosive was used. The statue of King George 11. was blown from the pedesiLiail and badly damaged. The windows of adjacent buildings were shattered but, fortunately, no one was injured. Police flying; squads rushed uP and found a dump of guns and ammunition. They are at present intensively searching the neigih_ bourhood. Loud cheers greeted the burning of the Union Jack at a meeting of ex_ members of the Irish Republican Army, 400 of whom marched in a procession in the streets demanding complete independence. The cutting of telephone and telegraph wires isolated Londonderry on Coronation morning. Wires' crossing the border of Ulster near Strabane were also cut. Nevertheless, a Free State band of Boy Scouts carrying a Union Jack participated in the Stra_ bane celebrations.