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Show uu HIGH EXPLOSIVES TAKEN IN IRELAND DUBLIN, Dec 4. The Evening Mail says the police have seized a large quantity of high explosives which were being brought to Ireland from Scotland. Scot-land. It Is stated the explosives were found in a portmanteau carried by two boys who are described as being members mem-bers of the Countess Georgina Mar-kievicz's Mar-kievicz's boy scouts, who landed at Belfast from Scotland Sunday morning. One report of the seizure connects It with the Sinn Feinera. The portmanteau contained enough explosives, it is said, to wreck most of the public buildings in Dublin. It Is further asserted that one boy had dispatches dis-patches inside his coat lining. An arrest has been made at Glasgow in connection with the affair. The Countess Markievicz was a prominent figure In 'the Dublin revolt In 1916. She was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life. Later she was released from prison. |