Headline in the Daily Chronicle, 27/07/1914. It was describing the aftermath of the Howth gun-running, when the Dublin Metropolitan Police and the Kings Own Scottish Borderers opened fire on crowds in Dublin, having failed to intercept arms headed for the Irish National Volunteers. Four people were killed and about 30 injured, and the incident was widely seen as the cue for civil war.
As it was, a shooting in Sarajevo a month ago ended up dominating the headlines and averting a civil war, at least for the time being. But that's a story we already know...
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