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Show TOURISTS FIND Priests Robbed of Car, Guns Aimed at California Mourners DUBLIN. Aug 30. (By The Associated Associ-ated Press.-) American touristy attempting at-tempting to se1 Ireland rin- returning to Dublin deeply disappointed and strong !n th'-ir ron.ieninatlin of condl-t.ons condl-t.ons in the province. Recently despite the advice given then ut their hotel here two youiiK Anvri. ;m priests rented an .iuiomo-blle .iuiomo-blle :iroi started "' BlsrhtseeJng They had reached a point onlv two miles from Dublin when they were halted by troops presumably republlcapa ') Key I h W d their American passpoits. bul said these brought them nothing but lanehter anti they were forced to alight from the car which the soldier appropriated The priests made th-lr way to the, nearest tdw n In B donkey cart. Other tourlstts bave had similar or; worse experiences. John .i t'ox. gr.m i knight of the Oakland tt'alir.i roun-j ell of ihf Kni-h-.a of Columbus, reached reach-ed Dublin wrtii his wife :'nd daughttir after b-lng i epeatedly held up While motoring In the Interior Mrs. Cox hid, gon- to Hoc ommon in visit her mother moth-er only to rind her mother had died fortnight b for- I The condition of the roads Whlcn ;had been blocked by fel'ed trees or, the dicing of trenches, had piade It ' neee-ie.rv to carry th" body six miles, across the fields and hills to thei i metery ,, . ., A I I Mt-vmirnilv the ('ox family visited 'S'llgo wh-re they found condition-; fgreatiy dlsl irbed and had to leave. I "i woke one nxprlng to und n ma-, chine gun point-d at my window, aalfl Mrs. Cox. "andj we left Sllgo ngh. j away." |