IRISH UNREST
RAIDS BY SINN FEINERS
POLICE BARRACKS ATTACKED.
iUNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIOHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
(Received October 14, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, 13th October
At one o'clock in the morning' forty armed Sinn Foiners attacked the Dunmanway Police Barracks with rifles, revolvers, and bombs. The garrison numbered thirty-one. The attackers' casualties are not known.
The officers killed in the military raid on Professor Carrolan's house at Drumconda included Major Smyth, brother of Commissioner Smyth, who was murdered in Cork in July. The officers apparently were shot by two men hiding in the house. The men escaped.
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Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 91, 14 October 1920, Page 7
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97IRISH UNREST Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 91, 14 October 1920, Page 7
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