20 DECEMBER 1919, Page 2

The latest exploit of the Sinn Feiners was a raid

on a Cork railway station on Tuesday night. A large gang of armed and disguised men took possession of the premises, imprisoned the night staff, and searched the goods yard. They intended presumably to seize a consignment of munitions. The station is near the police headquarters in Cork, but the raiders were not interfered with. No doubt some of the railway workers were in collusion with them. If the revolutionaries can show such audacity in Cork, the state of the countryside must be very bad indeed.