The Irish police last week found the Dublin headquarters of
the Sinn Fein propaganda, where the fables that delude Independent Liberals and Labour men were concocted. They also found a Sinn Fein arsenal full of arms and bombs, such as the innocent patriots use so freely. The rebels were active in the South, but sustained a good many casualties. At Bally- cannon, for instance, six murderers were caught on a farm and, in resisting arrest, were shot. Further north, in Ros- common, a military escort of the 9th Lancers was ambushed On the 23rd ; Captain Peek and four troopers were killed and several were wounded. The same day an audacious but vain attempt was made to rescue some of the convicted murderers in Cork Gaol. In Dublin there have been bomb outrages daily. The Sinn Feiners have murdered a number of civilians, especially Protestants, in the South. Thus a Protestant, father and son, named Fleming, of Drumgarra, Monaghan, were taken from their home on Saturday night by a crowd of rebels and shot ; the son was killed and the father fatally wounded. On Tuesday morning Captain Lees, an officer employed at Dublin Castle, was murdered in the street while walking from his hotel to his office. No one tried to help him or to detain the assassins.
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