THE IRISH PROBLEM.
MURDER DF POLICE OFFICIALS, CONSTABULARY SACK TOWN. siy Telegraph—Pr« 3 g AnoeulJon-Copyrifht Au.tr.lUn and N.2. Cable A.wox.Ho, ' (Keceived September 22, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, September 21. 1 once Inspector Burke and Sergeant .Hurke who are brothers, were shot dead m Balbnggan at midnight. Uniformed ■ men then sacked the. town. Two civilians wore shot dead and several wounds' and many business Louses wero destrayed. About fifty constabulary reennts.wero engaged in the sacking. A dairyman, named Gibbons, and a barber, named Lawless, who were dragged out from their houses, were first bayonetted and then shot dead < Twenty-eipht houses, mostly belonging to proponent Diun homers, wore burned. (Balbriggan is a town and watering about eighteen miles north of Dublin. It is.noted for its manufacture 400 ) tOD h ° 3o ’ T]lo po^u!ation ] ‘s about
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 20058, 22 September 1920, Page 7
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