27 MARCH 1920, Page 1
The patrol thereupon fired ten rounds and the soldiers charged
the crowd. A man and a woman in the coped were killed and another man was hit in the wrist. A soldier, according to this account, had already been shot in the chest and others had been injured by stones. A true comment upon the whole situation in Ireland was made by Lord Justice O'Connor at the C,orls Spring Assizes, when he said that the community must come to its own rescue if the whole fabric of Irish life were not to rot away. The people themselves must get rid of the tyranny that prevailed amongst them. They could certainly make a beginning of doing this by showing their recognition of the simple fact that both police and soldiers are the friends of those who keep the law.
