In Dublin on Thursday week a Sinn Fein gang attacked
an armoured car and wounded the driver ; one of the assailants was shot dead. The same -dity another -gang fired on a party of 'troops and killed an officer ; one of the gang, who was shot dead, proved to be a notorious rebel " commandant " named Tracey. On Sunday two policemen were murdered in the Dublin streets. Later in .the day the police, while searching for the murderers in a public hall, came- upon -an armed man who tried to escape and was fatally wounded. The same night, near Athlone, Sinn Fein= fired on a military patrol in a launch and wounded Major Adams. It is difficult to regard these outrages with. the complacency :shown" by Independent Liberal and Labour politicians in this country, who loudly denounce the alleged '" reprisals " and have little or nothing to say about the deliberate oampaign of murder in which the Shin Feiners are engaged. One of the " hunger-strikers " in Cork Gaol died on Sunday night. This man, named Fitzgerald, was awaiting trial on 'the -charge of murdering -a soldier at Fermoy. He -starved himself to death after sixty-eight days.
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