WAR ON POLICE.
[ LATEST SINN FEIN RAID. ; FIREARMS AND BOMBS USED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—CopyrlgßJ. Received March 1, 11.15 p.m. London, Feb. 26. Details of the attack on the Timoleague constabulary barracks show that a band of armed men, estimated at forty to eighty, at midnight employed firearms and bombs in a fight which lasted four hours. None of thp garrison was injured. In the morning three dead assailants were found close to the barracks; also one severely wounded, who said seven wounded men had been removed. The assault was carried out with the usual preliminaries of road blocking and telegraph Vire cutting. The barracks ad« join the station, and the assailants used railway waggons as armored cars, which were found to-day bullet marked.—« Times Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 March 1920, Page 5
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