6 MARCH 1920, Page 1

The chief victim of the Sinn Fein campaign of murder

and outrage this• week was Mr. Frank Shawe Taylor, a well- kaolin -Galway landowner and a kinsman of the late Captain

Shawe Taylor, who inspired Mr. Wyndham's Land Act. Mr. Shawe Taylor was waylaid on Wednesday morning near Athenry and shot dead by a gang of Shin Feiners. His chauffeur was seriously wounded. The same day in Dublin the mail-van taking official correspondence to Dublin Castle was held up in the street by an armed band and robbed of its contents.