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IRISH CONTENDEES FUTILE ASSAULTS; REBEL HOME BURNED. (Roccivcd 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, April 24. Sinn Foi-icrs at midnight futilely Attacked the Kilrush police barracks and coastguard station. The military coun-ter-attacked. A sergeant was wounded. The rebel casualties are not known. Police Sergeant MeGadden was killed. A private of the Royal Scots and two marines were captured. • The latter were released, while a soldier who was wounded escaped. Auxiliary police were sent to Maam, Oonnemara, to raid the house of Patrick 0 'Maillie,, a Sinn Fein member of the House of Commons, who has been on the run for two and a-half years. Ambushers with a machine-guti. killed a constable, wounded two others and then decamped The auxiliaries burned the house.—A. and Nil.
DIRECT AFFINITY,
SOVIET AND SINN FEIN.
(Received 9.30 a.m.)
LONDON, April 23,
In the House of Commons, replying to a question, the Attorney-General for Ireland stated that he would shortly publish, evidence showing connection between the Soviet Government and the Sinn Fein movement.—Renter.
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Northern Advocate, 26 April 1921, Page 5
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