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Last Saturday morning the Terror which has been carried into

the Northern area by the I.R.A. irregulars was suddenly and with obvious premeditation carried to a still more extreme point. The catalogue of destruction is without parallel even in Ireland. In counties Antrim and Down historic private houses were surrounded, seized and burnt down with all their furniture and valuables. Police barracks and post offices were bombed ; railway bridges were blown up ; telegraph wires were cut, and more persons than ever were murdered. Among the private houses burned were Shane's Castle in Antrim, the home of Lord O'Neill ; Oldcourt Castle, in County Down, belonging to the De Ros family ; the home of Mr. Ronald McNeill, and the house which was left to Mr. Winston Churchill by Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest.

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