SINN FEIN OUTRAGES.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIIII, Issue 83, 9 April 1920, Page 5

SINN FEIN OUTRAGES.

A FORMIDABLE LIST.

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An official return of Sinn Fein outrages in Ireland from January Ist. 1919, to March 20th last shows that they totalled 1089, of which 588 were in Munster, 269 in Leinster, 157 in Connaught, and 95 in Ulster. The outrages' include 36 murders, of which five were of civilians. There were 81 oases of firing at persons, namely, 55 at police, 12 at the military, and 14 civilians. There were 32 assaults, and 426 raids on arms, of which 339 were on civilians. There vere 47 incendiary "fires and 54 cases of firing into dwellings—namely, 24 into police residences and 30 into civilians' houses.