The troops and police on Saturday last discovered a Sinn
Fein bomb factory in Parnell Street, in the centre of Dublin, under a shop tenanted by Heron, an official of the Irish Transport Workers' Union, and Lawless, a councillor and a member of the " Republican Army." The same evening in Cork, a Sinn Fein gang hidden in some houses throw bombs—possibly made in the Dublin factory—at a party of auxiliary police in a motor-lorry. Twelve of the policemen were badly injured and one died. Three of the suspected murderers were taken and shot. Later in the evening incendiary fires broke out. Some of the principal shops, the City Hall, and the Free Library were burnt to the ground. The damage is estimated at £3,000,000. As in the Dublin insurrection, the burning shops were looted. The Sinn Feiners and their English friends have been quick to attribute this deplorable outrage to the auxiliary police rather than to Irish anarchists.
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