27 NOVEMBER 1920, Page 2

Last week a parish priest in Galway was kidnapped by

Sinn Feiners and afterwards murdered. Two men who had been acquitted at a Dublin court martial were murdered on their way home to Limerick, presumably by Sinn Feiners who regarded their acquittal as evidence that they were spies. Captain Thompson, of the Manchester Regiment, was shot dead while bicycling near Cork on Saturday. A head constable at Newry was shot on Sunday and died from his wounds. Two policemen were seized by Sinn Feiners while leaving a Roman Catholic church. in Cork on Sunday night ; one was taken away and was doubtless murdered. We have not heard of any protest from the Roman Catholic clergy against the We of their churches as traps for pious policemen.