181,000 DOLLARS IN WHISKY STOLEN BY BANDITS IRISH SITUATION

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XX, Issue 6758, 6 November 1922, Page 2

181,000 DOLLARS IN WHISKY STOLEN BY BANDITS

IRISH SITUATION

"Fifty men armed with sawed-oif. shotguns v raided Foust's distillery at Glen Koqlc,' York County, early yesterday, overpowered guards, and Btole 180 barrels of. whisky. Sixteen motor were needed to carry the whisky away. The slock is valued at i 81,006 dollars, " It was the second attempt in a week t,o, raid the distillery, Late Thursday twelve men in jjptor trucks dr<> v P u p *o tjie distillery and overpowered the guards with drawn ptsto}s."—Philadelphia Public Ledger, July 16 ,1922. This is not an isolated pase of lawbrewing jn U.S.A. I\> js a sample of what is happening every day in diil'ereut parts of the country. A sample of the failure ot Prohibition, and the enormous crop of criminality that has followed in its wake. Keep New Zealand freo from, this vile thing vote Continuance.—. (Advt.) i

EXTENSIVE REBEL OUTBREAK j ■ MUCH DAMAGE DONE. .f * ■ PROCLAMATION BY DE VALERA. Australian and N.Z. Cable.

' (Received 8 a.m.) LONDON. November 4. The most extensive Republican outbreak in County Louth for some time occurred between Dundalk anff Drogheda. Tlie roads were damaged, the railways track destroyed, the telephone wire & out and a train wrecked. ’Widespread havoc was wrought by exploplosions. The military bnrrack s at Ardee were

attacked with bombs and rific fir e . for three hoursj and the adjoining nousic, occupied by the cashier of the Ulster bank, and which the occupants had recently vacated, was blown up {Ad other bouses damaged the occupadtg narrowly escaping. Dei Valera ha s issued a proclamation in Dublin urging non-rcognition of the Imperial elections in Ulster, and {alleging that participation mean a the recognition of the right of an alien legislature to partition the country, and make laws for Ireland. Nationalists troops in Hub tin when approaching the house, of Mrs Hum. phries, a sister of the rebel leader killed in the 1916 rising, tor the purpose .of a raid were fired on. After a fierce duel the house wa's stormed, and several of the occupants were found to h« wounded. Mi's Humphries and an un. -wounded daughter were arrested. The house was tbo headquarters of an irregular command, and contained important papers. It is believed that de Valera had taken refuge in the house, but escaped during the night. A BANK BAILED UP. ’.Received 8 ft .in A LONDON, November 4. i Three armed men disguised a« women i ( bailed up tbo bank in Kilmsh and I seized £I6OO after locking tbo "manager ; and twb of the staff in a safe, into which holes were subsequently bored to j supply air until the duplicate koy !wa£| secured to enable their release.