ATTACK ON BLUE SHIRTS.
ASSAULT ON A HALL. ALL WINDOWS SMASHED. TROOPS SUMMONED FROM DUBLIN United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Feb. 12, 9.13 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 11. A crowd attacked the Mayoral rooms at Drogheda in which Blue Shirts were dancing. They smashed all the windows and maintained volleys of missies after the shutters were closed. The Civic Guards were unable to quell the disturbance. Troops from Dublin were summoned and stood by in the barracks while the police made baton charges and detectives fired revolvers in the air to disperse the mob.
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Waikato Times, Volume 115, Issue 19178, 12 February 1934, Page 7
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