Dublin is ringed with steel in the search for IRA arsenal raiders

Dublin was ringed with steel last night as the military authorities drew tight around the Irish capital an armed cordon in search of the million rounds of rifle, revolver and machine-gun ammunition daringly captured by IRA men from the army's Magazine Fort in Phoenix Park
on Saturday.

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