The Sinn Fein insurgents have continued to attack small parties
of soldiers or policemen. At Kikommon, in Tipperary, on the 16th instant, four policemen were murdered and one badly wounded in a Sinn Fein ambush. The same day a Sinn Fein depot was found in the hills near Monaghan, and seven rebels were taken. On the 17th a party of men of the Lincolnshire Regiment was ambushed near Mitelielatown ; two soldiers were killed and four wounded, In County Clare on the 18th a detach- ment was ambushed, but the soldiers dispersed the rebels with a Lewis gun and captured two of them. On Sunday troops landed on the Aran Islands and caught seven insurgents who sem hiding in that remote spot. On Monday- several parties of troops wore attacked in the hills between Clonmel and Kilkenny ; it is said that the rebels lost heavily. A tragic incident of last week was the shooting of Canon Magner, of Dunmanvray, by a cadet, in a fit of insanity. The unhappy officer was one of the few survivors of the terrible outrage near Macroom, which his comrades were brutally done to death, and the shock had unhinged his mind. The resident magistrate narrowly escaped death at his hands.
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