IRISH AFFAIRS
REBELS USE A MINE. MOTOR LORRY BLOWN UP. TWO KILLED. NINE WOUNDED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received February 3, 11.10 p.m. LONDON, February 3. The rebels, ambushing auxiliaries near >Ballinalea, employed a road mine, blowing up a. motor lorry, killing two and woun ting nine. This is believed lo be tin first occasion on which the rebels have used a mine. DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received February 3, 7.50 p.m. LONDON, February 3. Joseph Murphy, after his execution had been four times postponed, has had his sentence commuted to penal servitude for life for murdering a soldier in an ambush at Cork.
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14583, 4 February 1921, Page 5
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109IRISH AFFAIRS Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14583, 4 February 1921, Page 5
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