IRISH OUTRAGES.
DUBLIN HOUSE BURNED. NEWSPAPER OFFICE BOMBED. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Australian anil N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 20. 9.5 a.in.) LONDON, December 19. Armed men sot fire to the house of tho Hon C. Gordon Campbell, Lord Glenavy’s son, in Dublin. The raiders knocked at the front door and a.sked to see Mrs Campbell, whom they ordered to remove her children, saying that they had been instructed to fet fir© to tbo place. Mr Campbell assisted his wife to remove the children, after which the incendiaries sprinkled tin* room with paraffin and set lire to the house. Four rooms were ablaze when the fire brigade arrived. They succeeded in saving the remainder, but the furniture nnd most of the interior fittings were all destroyed. Mr Campbell. who is an official in the Ministry of Labour, has helped to adjust hundreds of Labour disputes during the lust few years. Two bombs were thrown into the office of the “ Trish Independent,” but no damage was done. SEVEN MEN EXECUTED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. l <Reecived December 20. 9.25 n.m.> LONDON, December It*. Seron men who were captured in a dugout at Kildare last week wore oxorutod at the Portobello Barracks in Dublin to-dav.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16920, 20 December 1922, Page 7
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204IRISH OUTRAGES. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16920, 20 December 1922, Page 7
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