On Tuesday three polMomon were murdered and several wounded in
various Western villages. At Ballymote, for instance, a sergeant was shot dead in a crowded street ; the people looked on and helped the assassins to escape. It is reported that unauthorized reprisals were taken in several cases on the property of Slim Fciners ; at Traleo the Town Hall was sot on lire, hut the troops calmed the angry police and helped to extinguish the flames. Mr. Hugh Martin, the Irish corre- spondent of the Daily News, who has made special efforts to collect storice of reprisals, has declared that his life was threat- ened by Irish policemen in the presence of the Evening News correspondent. The Chief Secretary, when questioned about this complaint on Wednesday, said very properly that the Government would take every step in its power to prevent any attack upon any journalist in Ireland. It is equally mourn. bent upon London newspaper correspondents to verify the information which they obtain from Sinn Feiners. Many of the stories of reprisals have proved to be absolutely false.
