BARRACKS ASSAULTED
DETERMINED ATTACKS -ON
POLICE
LONDON, 7th January.
Fifty armed men attacked the Drumlish police barracks in County Longford during the night. Five defenders repulsed the attack until the military arrived .in motor-cars. Another determined attack, lasting two. hours, was made on the Roiindstone barracks, County Galway, in which 200 Sinn Feiners were engaged. The police made a vigorous defence, and after the Sinn Feiners had dispersed pursued and captured two of the attackers. Owing to night marauding Dublin business men are employing a civil patrol to protect their premises and properties. •
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 8, 9 January 1920, Page 7
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