3 JUNE 1922, Page 1
In the meantime, attacks and counter-attacks in Belfast have gone
on without ceasing. The majority of the persons murdered were Protestants. Last Saturday two British soldiers who were walking in College Green, Dublin, were attacked from behind. One was shot dead and the other was seriously wounded. Mr. Rory O'Connor, the bandit who still occupies the Irish Law
Courts, announced that this act was " murder pure and simple." We cannot help wondering what that may mean. When are Irish murders not murders pure and simple ? Where is the distinction ?
