The Sinn Feiners during the past week have contented them-
selves with murdering civilians and a few unarmed soldiers and policemen, and have made no serious attacks on the troops. On Thursday, April 14th, Sir Arthur Vicars, formerly Ulster King of Arms, was taken from his house in Kerry and murdered by a gang of men, who afterwards burnt the house. On the following day Major Mackinnon of the Auxiliary Police was shot dead by some ruffians while he was playing golf near Tralee ; the houses of persons in a neighbouring village, who were snipes• ted of complicity in the affair, were burnt the same night by order of the military commander. The Sinn Feiners, as in former insurrections, do not respect age or sex. On Sunday night a party of them seized a poor woman named Carroll, living near Monaghan, marched her ,,for a mile from her home, and foully murdered her. She was the sole support of her aged parents and an invalid brother. Her only offence had been to complain of the illicit traffic in drink, which doubtless helped to swell the funds of the murder-gang.
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