SINN FEIN GUEMILLA WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17392, 12 February 1920, Page 5

SINN FEIN GUEMILLA WAR.

■-. S. ' ' ' ; ♦ ■ AFFRAYJfEAR QII3p*STQWN / POLICE ' BARRACKS STORMED. 1 RAID IN DUBLIN HARBOUIfc. . By ■ A and N.Z. LONDON, f»b. 10. ' . Two « hundred '. ■: armed •'• men < captured , Castlemartyr police barrack** I U »fl«« I easVof^ueenstewn^Thero^/m^ • casualties during the affray, i Masked and armed Sinn Feiners raided • the 'drifter Arklow at Dublin on: Satur- • day, and'removed • 13 I/boxes: containing :'■■ half a ton of gelignite. The drifter loaded » gelignite ,on Thursday cat/ Kynoch's ' explosive. factory,, . which; was ~ : \ recently , closed, in order to transport it elsewhere, . She. was ? compelled fto return jto port ?by •■ stress of weather. Meantime the military guard,had been withdrawn. The raiders ) took positions on various parte f t of r. the quays, while a party, boarded the drifter :'■ from i a small' bo«A, j surprising | and .bind-. ■ ing the watchmen. 'The raiders were well* . acquainted with i explosivesiy and selected / only'the'finished product. The police and 1 military did not v succeed in tracing the 1 gelignite.'-.;.' • '* : /.'': .-*..-.' ■'- '. ; Seventy Sinn Feinera were arretted at ' Mrinster'. and : removed to Oor'i gaol ', under. a strong military guard, including armoured:cars.\' They ' were/;'.placedl on war vessels sat '.Qneenstown, and taken to/an English port. An aeroplane circled overhead until the '• vessels were at sea.