The Sinn Fein murder gangs committed a series of atrocious
crimes in Dublin on Sunday morning. Pasties of armed men visited eight private houses and hotels where British officers were staying and murdered in cold blood eleven officers, two police cadets, and a civilian. Four other officers and a civilian were badly wounded and left for deed. Most of the victims were in bed or dressing when they were attacked. At one house Captain Maclean, who had his wife and child with him, was forcibly taken from his bed, thrust into an adjoining room and shot dead, with his unfortunate landlord. His brother-in-law, a civilian, was badly wounded. At another house Captains Kewbury was murdered in his bedwom, before the eyes of his young wife, after a violent struggle with ten assassins. At a third house, let out in lodgings, two officers were murdered and four gravely injured. The deliberate savagery with which these unarmed men were done to death recalls seine of the worst deeds of the Irish rebels of 1641 and 1798, and shows that Roman Catholicism has not civilized the brute in Ireland. In one ease the murderers fired five shots at a poor officer as he lay in bed, disfiguring him horribly, and then attacked his mangled corpse with a hatchet.
