ATTACK ON POLICE BARRACKS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 126, 31 May 1920, Page 5

ATTACK ON POLICE BARRACKS.

TWO POLICEMEN BURNT TO

DEATH,

! FPIiBBB ABHOOIATtOW-l lustralitui and N.Z Cable Aawiation

(Received May 30, 5.5 .p k.m.) i i . LONDON, May 29. Tliere was a desperate attack on Kilmallock police barracks, County limerick.- The tiny garrison held but for five hours against 400 men. until the barrack^ caught fire and were burned to the ground. Two police defenders were burned ; to death, and . another was dangerously wounded.' ;

It is believed that two Sinn Feiners were killed and others wounded, but details are lacking, as Kilmallock is isolated,/ owing to the. telephone and telegraph being cut, and the- railway .lines being torn up.- , There was a gruesome discovery at Limerick Junction, when a fireman .found a human head impaled on the engine of the mail train.

A', later message states that communication with Kilmallock is still unrcstored. The excitement in the district is intense. Other barracks were attacked and burned. The whole garrison at Kilmallock were wounded. Burning petrol was thrown on the roof of the barracks from the r.oighboring houses, and the garrison were compelled to surrender. The remains on the mail train a-e now said to be a human heir;, tul probably it is only a gruesome .'tke, as search of the railway line 'toes not reveal any evidence of an »t<vidnnt.