OUTRAGES IN IRELAND.
TRAINS DESTROYED BY REBELS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Ca.ble Association. (Received December 23, 11 a.m.) t jOvn/v\ r oo
LONDON, December 22. The train outrage by rebels near \ Dundalk was the most serious ever atj tempted. The raiders first held up the I station staff at Castleballingham, and j then the goods train was sent off without a driver. The train was soon ! wrecked and blocked both lines. Then ! the mail train was held up and set on fire, and was sent off. It ran into the : wrecked goods train and the whole mass ! blazed for several hours. The raiders ; cleared off after the collision, j The damage amounts to many thoui sands and includes all the passengers’ ! luggage.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16923, 23 December 1922, Page 8
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124OUTRAGES IN IRELAND. Star (Christchurch), Issue 16923, 23 December 1922, Page 8
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