The Sinn Fein 'rebels were active on Saturday and Sunday.
At Cross Barry, near Kinsale, on Saturday a patrol of troops and police was ambushed. Their lorries were stopped by the sudden blowing up of a bridge, and machine-guns were turned on them by the rebels under cover. Light soldiers and policemen were killed, and the lorries were burnt. Reinforce- ments then appeared and scattered the rebels, of whom six were killed and six captured. On Saturday night a military lorry was bombed in a crowded Dublin street ; two soldiers were killed and six wounded. On Sunday morning, near Dungarran, a small patrol was ambushed. One policeman was killed ; a sergeant was taken away by the rebels and murdered in cold blood. Seven of the Sinn Feiners were shot dead. On Monday thirty men of the City of London Regiment were attacked on leaving their train at Headford, County Kerry, by a large gang concealed in the station ; an officer and eight men were kilted and twelve men were wounded. A brave sergeant brought a machine-gun into action and held off the rebels till help arrived. A large number of isolated murders of policemen and civilians by Sinn Feiners were also reported ; most of the victims were unarmed.
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