The Sinn Fein outrages continue. On Friday, January Nth, Commissioner
Holmes and a police escort were ambushed near Castleisland, in Kerry, by a large rebel force with two machine- guns. One policeman was shot dead ; Mr. Holmes died of wounds. The same day at Coachford, County Cork, a party of rebels in ambush was surprised by a patrol of the Manchesters ; one rebel was shot dead and ten were captured. On Saturday last a military patrol of the Berkshire Regiment was attacked at Terenure, outside Dublin.; an officer and eight men were wounded by bombs. Two civilians, a hotel porter and a milk- man, were deliberately murdered the same day in. Dublin. by rebels. On Monday Captain King, the county police inspector, and his wife were leaving the station at Mallow when they were fired upon. Mrs. King was shot dead—the Irish rebel, like his models in 1641 and 1798, respects neither sex nor age—while her husband was wounded. When the police came up they too were fired upon ; in the affray a railwayman was killed and several were wounded.
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