The most flagrant offence committed by the Sinn Feiners this
week, however, was the kidnapping of Brigadier-General Lucas and his staff officers, Colonel Danford and Colonel Tyrrell. These officers, of the Clonmel military area, ignoring the fact that Sinn Fein is at war, had gone away to fish in the Blackwater, four miles from Fermoy. On Saturday night their fishing but was surrounded by armed brigands who captured the officers and took them away in motor-cars. Colonel Danford jumped out of the car and vias shot down. The other colonel was left to attend to his serious wounds. The General was conveyed to some unknown hiding place. The House of Commons was officially informed that he had been " arrested " by Sinn Fein. On Wednesday the Daily Chronicle, the chief Ministerielist paper, was able to state that an officer at Fermoy had received a letter from the General saying that communications would reach him, " after being censored," if they were sent through certain Sinn Fein agents, and that his detention would last "some few weeks." It was further stated that the officer would comply with the General's directions.
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