Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Irish war for a Republic was on again-with the usual solicitation of funds from wild Irish in the U. S. Things got really serious last month when 150 I. R. A. stalwarts stole 1,084,000 rounds of ammunition and numerous guns from the Phoenix Park Arsenal of the de Valera Government (TIME, Jan. 8). That looked as though the phantom Irish Republic might soon come to life with a real Army and try anything from a coup d'état - sure to be bloody in Ireland - to civil war. As the Dail assembled last week for emergency...
...loneliest, darkest spots of Phoenix Park, Dublin, near the place where a granite monument to the Duke of Wellington stands and about a mile from the Island Bridge barracks, the Army of Eire maintains one of its major arsenals. One night last fortnight a man dressed in an Eire Army uniform approached the arsenal gates, remarked that the parcel he carried was a Christmas gift to the commanding officer...
...unsuspecting sentries saluted, returned a "Merry Christmas," hastened to unlock the gates. Scarcely were they opened before out of the dark appeared other men, not in Army uniforms, who held guns rather than parcels in their hands. Without a shot fired, the arsenal's guard was disarmed. Four official-looking lorries soon drove into the arsenal, and before the Island Bridge barracks knew what was up. the trucks, loaded with 1,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition, had made their getaway...
...Spee's officers were not deprived of their swords and pistols before being quartered at the Immigrants' Hotel (Argentina's Ellis Island), close to the naval arsenal grounds. They relaxed happily while German Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann sought to have the Spee's company adjudged survivors of a wrecked ship, not subject to internment...