18 DECEMBER 1920, Page 2

The Sinn Feiners made numerous attacks on the troops and

police on Sunday. A police barracks at Camlough, County Armagh; was besieged, but the occupants sent up rockets and were relieved by troops,. who captured seven rebels. At Ballinalee, County Longford, the police beat off a similar attack, losing one man killed and three wounded; A patrol of the Cameron Highlanders was ambushed near Clayne and assailed with bombs, but the soldiers drove the rebels away, killing one of them and capturing two others. In another affray in County Waterford, a patrol caught seven rebels. In the outskirts of Dublin on Tuesday a party of Shin Feiners overpowered a squad of police and stole the mails which they were escorting.