The Sinn Fein propagandists have long adopted the device of
ascribing every murder to the police. It is well known that the revolutionaries are always -quarrelling among themselves. Even in America the Sinn Feiners are split into two bitterly hostile factions. The late Lord Mayor of Cork fell victim to one of these feuds, yet, though he was murdered by a /rival faction, his death was at once put at the door of the- police. Another typical instance may be found-in Wednesday's Morning Pod. On Monday:night Edward and Francis O'Dwyer; the two sons of 10. -farmer at Barllyd.avid, Tipperary, were shot -dead outside their home. Now the Sinn Fein account reproduced, as we regret to see, by the Daily Chronicle from its_special.corra &pendent in Dublin, who presumably took it from a Dublin newspaper—says that " a party in military uniform, accom- panied by a police officer," went to the-farm, dragged the two young men out and shot them dead. On the face of it, this story is incomplete. Soldiers would have had their own officer with them. The men would not have been shot unless they had resisted arrest or had fired on the soldiers.
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