Each day still sees some foul crime committed by the
Sinn Feiners in Ireland. Two policemen were ambushed and shot dead near Limerick on January 13th. Mr. McGrath, K.C., a moderate Nationalist, was murdered in his house in Dublin on January 14th. Two policemen were shot and badly wounded in a crowded street in Cork on January 15th ; no one attempted to help them or to capture the assassins. General Strickland was moved by this disgraceful affair to tell the Deputy Lord Mayor that, unless law-abiding people helped to rid the city of the murder-gang, he would have to take drastic measures to prevent policemen from being attacked in the streets. On January 17th a policeman was murdered in a public-house near Clonmel. On the 18th a police patrol was ambushed near Galway, and had six casualties. On the 19th soldiers were wounded in ambushes in Cork and Tipperary. To talk of peace when the " Irish Republican Army " is still perpetrating these daily outrages with the connivance of a terrorized population is hypocritical. Martial law properly administered is the only cure for these disorders.
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