POLICE ASSAILED
THE SINN FEIN ATTACKS
A GALWAY BATTLE.
(AUSTRALIAN - NEI7 ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
(Received January 12, 2 p.m.)
LONDON, 10th January. A hundred Sinn Feiners, with revolvers and shotguns, attacked the police barracks at Castlehackett, County Galway, and wrecked it with bombs, wounding a policeman who was returning the firs from behind the steel shutters. Another party of police came up, and surprised the Sinn Femers' in the rear, and they fled. In all these attacks on the barracks, the police have been outnumbered by ten to one.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 10, 12 January 1920, Page 8
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