2 OCTOBER 1920, Page 2

On Sunday morning the police barracks in the little town

of Trim, County Meath, were attacked by a large body of Simi Feiners while half the police were at church. The head constable was seriously wounded, and the barracks were set on fire. The townspeople made no attempt to help the police and were obviously in league with the assailants, who had blocked all the roads round Trim and cut the telegraph wires. Early on Monday morning, it is alleged, a body of police auxiliaries entered the town and set fire to several houses belonging to leading Sinn Feiners.