AUXILIARY POLICE ARRIVE
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(Ballina Herald,
January 20, 1921)
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About five o’clock on yesterday week
(Wednesday, 12th January, 1921), a party of Auxiliary Police arrived in
Ballina, and are billeted in the Moy and Imperial Hotels. Since their arrival
in the town they had been very active. Pedestrians and houses have been
searched; a few merchants who were known to have had pronounced Sinn Fein views
were asked and consented to parade the street carrying Union Jacks, as it was
thought this would have a salutary effect on the youths of the district. The
report that force was used in this or any instance we are asked to refute. The
statement that young men have been brutally maltreated is also denied. Outlying
villages have visit and searched but no further capture of arms are reported.
The stay of the auxiliary police is indefinite.
Our attention has been drawn to the statement
in last week’s “Herald” that T. Greene, who was amongst those arrested the
previous week in Ballina, following the sensational discovery of arms and
explosives, was an employee in Mr. Beckett’s saw mills. This, we understand, is
not a fact, as he had not then or at any previous time been employed by that
establishment.
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