The Sinn Feiners perpetrated a series of shocking murders of
policemen and soldiers on Sunday sad Monday last, principally in Cork, Kerry, and the Western counties. At Melee, for example, a police patrol was ambushed ; two of the men, who disappeared, were afterwards found dead in a field, where they had been foully murdered. Near Youghal On Monday night a party of troops on a lorry fell into an ambush and were over. whelmed by numbers ; one soldier was killed and two badly wounded. The Chief Secretary on Monday night gave the House of Commons brief particulars of fifteen outrages of the kind, and his list was incomplete. One murderer, Kevin Barry, who was caught red-handed after he had shot a British soldier dead in a Dublin street last September, was hanged on Monday. We are sorry to learn that the Labour Party asked for a reprieve.
