A large body of Sinn Feiners ambushed a police patrol
at Rosacarbery, County Cork, on Wednesday, February 2nd. They were beaten off with loss. On February 3rd a patrol was ambushed by rebels at New Pallas, near Limerick ; nine police- men were shot dead and two died of their wounds. The houses of some persons suspected of complicity in the murder were after- wards burned. On the same day two policemen were assassinated On the road near Ballinhassig. On Saturday three military lorries were attacked with bombs in different parts of Dublin. Summer- hill House, near Trim, a large mansion, was wilfully burnt by rebels. On Monday there was more bomb-throwing in Dublin ; moreover, a Sinn Fein gang robbed a bank, and escaped with a large sum of money, while a large party of rebels occupied the goods yard of the Great Northern Railway for an hour or two. The rebel activity is gradually centring in Dublin, where martial law has not yet been proclaimed. Four Sinn Feiners belonging to a rebel organization in Scotland were convicted on Wednesday of attempting to murder a policeman at Bothwell last October. The _ringleader was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude and the others to eight years.
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