Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-26
Grown FORCES
CAPTURE HUGE
DUBLIN CACHE
Three Intending Emf
grants to u. S. Also
Taken in Raids.
Complete Sets of Sol
dier Equipment and
Mail Bags Found.

Dublin, March 25.-(By the Associ
ated Press) The capture of a larg,
quantity of arms, ammunition and sedi
tious literature and also three intend
ing emigrants to America, who wer,
found guarded by four members of tn,
Irish republican army. was reported il
two official statements issued from
general headquarters Friday.
The statements, which told of raid.
made early Friday by the auxiliary
police, said the four Sim Feiners also
were taken. The first statement read
Statements Issued.
During the course of raid carried
out early Friday by auxiliary police
on stables behind Great Charles
street, Dublin, the following articles
were found:
Fifteen revolvers, 6 rifles. 6 shot
guns, 400 bombs, 1,5OO rounds of
small arms ammunition, IL eighteen
FOUNDER shells, a pompom, quantity
of detonators, field telephones, var,
ious articles of military and rebel
tious literature, three motor cars,
each containing quantity of cap
tured arms and ammunition, and two
motor bicycles.
The. second statement said:
During a raid by police early today
seven men were found under sus-
picious circumstances at No 100
Seville Place, Dublin. Investigation
showed that three were intending
emigrants to America, while the
other four were rebel policemen. who
were guarding them with the object
of preventing them from leaving Ire
land. All seven at present are IN
custody. ~
Village Lads Arrested.
Further details of the mems cap
ture, obtained from an authoritative
source, indicate that the three emf
grants were village lads from a dis
fant county who had obtained pass,
norris for America through the local
pettv sessions clerk. They, with the
four guards were found by the auxil-
iaries in an upper room Of an unocc'l,
Med house. AS the raiders rushed
through the door one of the men threw
loaded revolver into some waste
Two of the emigrants had Travelled
to Dublin Tuesday and the third joined
them the next day. The ensuing eve
ming all were seated in hotel room
when man entered with a revolver
He cried Glands up," and demanded
They replied that they had none, and
were only going to England. AS
measure of precaution they had given,
their passports to another inmate 81
the hotel for concealment.
After the hotel had been searched
the trio were taken to the empty mouse
in a closed cab where they were ques-
toned. They explained that they want
ed to emigrate in order better to sup
port their parents.
Largest Haul to Date.
The arms, ammunition and equipment
taken in the raid on the stables are
said to constitute the largest store yet
cantured. In ground floor room. the
raiders found shelves with loaded re-
volvers set in rows. On other shelves
were bombs of all sorts from small cir.
cular ones up to one about the size OF
an ostrich egg. In another room were
a number of rifles, some of which were
concealed in rolls Of oil cloth. in which
it was thought they might be carried
through the streets.
The raiders found complete sets of
soldiers equipment, including steel
hats. In one corner were empty gov
ernment mail bags and a number Of
letters addressed to the ministry of
pensions and state officials, dated 1920.
Five hundred yards away the auxil-
iaries raided a garage where they found
motor car with bag containing
bombs, with detonators affixed, On the
front seat and a telephone wire tapping
equipment, besides two Is FOUNDER
shells marked 'bloody and dangerous.